Beekeeping : A Compressive Guide to Bees and Beekeeping

This book shall serve as a reference book for students, teachers, and researchers and for all those interested in bees and beekeeping. This book will be useful to all those who wish to make beekeeping their hobby or as profession, entrepreneurs and even layman. Besides, the information provided in this book will be useful to pollination biologists, students, teachers, scientists of agriculture, animal behaviour, botany, conservation, biology, ecology, entomology, environmental biology, forestry, genetics, plant breeding, horticulture, toxicology, zoology, seed growers and seed agencies. It will be highly useful to motivate the young generation to fascinating world of honeybees and adopt beekeeping as a profession. Book as a guide for their problems & evolving strategies. Title Foreword Acknowledgments Preface Contents 1. Introduction 2. History and importance of beekeeping 3. Type of bees 4. Evolution and Biodiversity of honeybees 5. Diversity of honeybee species 6. Biology of the honeybee 7. Form and form function of the honeybee 8. Beginning beekeeping and establishment of apiary 9. Beekeeping equipments 10. Bee behaviour, Learning and Communication 11. Bee pasturage 12. Management of honeybee colonies 13. Migratory beekeeping – prospects and problems 14. Honey bee nutrition and supplemental feeding 15. Two queen colony system for high-honey yields andpollination 16. Honeybee breeding, mass rearing of queens andartificial insemination 17. The use of honeybees for pollination 18. Management of wild bees for pollination 19. Bee products 20. Value added products from bees and beekeeping 21. Diseases and enemies of honey bees 22. Breeding bees for disease resistance 23. Impact of inbreeding depression in honeybees 24. Quarantine control of honey bee diseases 25. Pesticidal toxicity to bees 26. Biotechnological potential of honeybees 27. Honeybees as bioindicators of ecosystem health 28. Beekeeping and subsidary industries 29. Handling, Processing, Storage and marketing ofHoney 30. Genetically modified crops and beekeeping 31. Diagnosis of Honey Bee Diseases 32. Conclusions Glossary Bibliography