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Offers an alternative to conventional chemical beekeeping practices with a natural hive management program, and includes information on bee anatomy, urban beekeeping, working with queens, mite control, and hive diseases.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Read not to contradict nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. ---Francis Bacon.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world. --Mahatma Ghandi
Dedicatória
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Dedicated to you, the Reader. May the honey bee bring as much joy and wonder into your life as it has to mine.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
We can learn so much from the honey bee, who also goes by the Latin name of Apis mellifera.
Preface: I did not develop my passionate affection for the honey bee early in life.
Forward: In Natural Beekeeping, Ross Conrad takes us on a journey, from his initially casual, coincidental involvement with honey bees as part-time wage work to his multifaceted engagement with these colonial creatures as collaborators in a struggle to keep the world we live in productive, safe, and healthy.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
When I put on a veil, I am putting up a barrier between the bees and myself, and once I have separated myself behind this protective wall it is easy to get lazy and forget to show respect for the little ladies with whom I am working....Without such a division, there is greater opportunity for prolonged and peaceful cooperation. (p. 30)
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Such creativity, focused on helping the beekeeping industry to progress in a sustainable manner, has the potential to carry the ancient craft of keeping bees well into the future.
Offers an alternative to conventional chemical beekeeping practices with a natural hive management program, and includes information on bee anatomy, urban beekeeping, working with queens, mite control, and hive diseases.