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Bee Genetics and Breeding by Thomas E. Rinderer Pdf
Bee Genetics and Breeding provides an overview of the state of knowledge in bee genetics and breeding. The book is organized into two parts. Part I deals with the scholarly issues of bee genetics. It is intended as a reference source for students of both bees and genetics. It could also serve as a text for university courses in bee genetics. Topics discussed include the evolution of eusocial insects; geographical variability and classification of honey bees; and behavioral and biochemical genetics of honey bees. Part II deals more specifically with the practical issues of bee breeding. The discussions include the quantitative genetics of honey bees; ways to define and measure honey-bee characteristics so that the "best" parents for honey-bee stock improvement programs can be selected; and mating designs. This section contains sufficient guidance for bee breeders to initiate or improve breeding programs. Apiculturalists generally will find this part especially interesting since the quality of their own bee stock depends on the skills and knowledge of the breeders who produce their queens.
Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry Hyde Laidlaw,Robert E. Page Pdf
"Written for beekeepers who know little about genetics and geneticists who know little about beekeeping." Chapter topics are: Brief history of queen rearing, The queen, The production of queen cells, Mating the virgin queens, The care of queens, Controlled mating, Genetics, Selective breeding, The genetic basis of disease resistance, Bibliography, Remarks, Whimsy and Index.
Development of Hybrid Honey Bees by Floyd E. Moeller Pdf
Geschiedenis en ontwikkeling van de kunstmatige inseminatietechniek tot een bruikbaar en noodzakelijk instrument voor het fokken van bijen, ontwikkeld en toegepast gedurende 20 jaar, in het hybride-bijen-programma van de "U.S. Department of Agriculture" en Canada. Aandacht voor geselecteerde voorbeelden van waargenomen variabiliteit binnen een populatie; problemen met het houden en instandhouden van door inteelt verkregen bijen; het nut en voordeel hiervan voor de industrie; toekomstige ontwikkelingen, zoals de behoefte aan fokmethoden met een minder intensieve inteelt en de ontwikkeling van koninginne- en spermabanken
Breeding Better Bees by John Ellis Dews,Eric Milner Pdf
The rationale behind a bee breeding programme for improvement of honeybee colonies is given together with a detailed description of simplified morphometric techniques which can be used to identify honeybee races or sub species. These techniques also indicate whether the breeder queen bee will breed true. The new edition includes an introduction to bee breeding as a means of controlling Varroa and a guide to computer-based record keeping.
Breeding Honey Bees - A Collection of Articles on Selection, Rearing, Eggs and Other Aspects of Bee Breeding by Various Authors Pdf
This volume contains a collection of articles on beekeeping, including information on selection, rearing, eggs, and many other aspects of bee breeding. Written in clear, concise language and complete with a wealth of interesting and practicable information, this collection will greatly appeal to the discerning beekeeper. It makes for a great addition to collections of bee-keeping literature. The articles contained herein include: 'A Manual of Bee-Keeping', 'A Modern Bee-Farm and Its Economic Management', 'Bees and Bee Keeping – A Plain and Practical Work', 'The American Bee Keeper's Manual', 'The Mystery of the Hive', and 'The Practical Bee Guide – A Manual of Modern Beekeeping'. We are proud to republish this vintage book, now complete with a new and specially commissioned introduction on beekeeping.
Russian Honey Bees by Steven Coy,Thomas Rinderer Pdf
Russian honey bees are a stock of honey bees that were bred to be resistant to Varroa mites and have good beekeeping functionality for both honey production and pollination. This book describes the project to produce the Russian honey bee stock, conducted over 20 years of work by the combined efforts of scientists and beekeepers. Practical information on the management of Russian honey bees is combined with understandable summaries of the extensive scientific literature on Russian honey bees from a variety of scientific journals. Chapter headings include: Basic Varroa Biology, Early History of the Russian Honey Bee Stock, Stock Formation, Resistance to Varroa, Stock Certification, Management of Russian Honey Bees, The Russian Honey Bee Breeders Association and A Beekeeper's Perspective. Whether readers are looking for a comprehensive overview of scientific aspects of Russian honey bees or guidelines for the practical management of Russian honey bees, they will find it in "Russian Honey Bees".Thomas Rinderer received his PhD training in honey bee genetics and pathology from Walter Rothenbuhler at The Ohio State University in the early 1970's. In 1975, he joined the USDA's Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He became the Laboratory's Research Director in 1977 and served in that role until his retirement in 2016. He is the author of nearly 350 research publications that address the topics of honey bee breeding, genetics, population genetics, behavior, biodiversity and pathology. His work has been recognized by numerous awards from national and international organizations. He has served as senior editor of both Honey Bee Science and the Journal of Apicultural Research. The last 20 years of his professional career were devoted to transforming the notion of having Russian honey bees in the U.S. from an interesting idea to a hearty and valuable honey bee stock that has excellent beekeeping functionality and is uniquely resistant to Varroa mites.Steven Coy is a second-generation commercial beekeeper who grew up in northeast Arkansas, where his family operated 10,000 hives for honey production and almond pollination. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Plant Science and a Master's degree in Biology from Arkansas State University. He moved to Mississippi in 2006 to manage the southern portion of Coy's Honey Farm and in 2014 he started Coy Bee Company, LLC to focus on producing purebred Russian queens and nucs.He has been an active member of state and local beekeeping organizations and has served as a member of the Executive Board of the American Honey Producers Association since 2010. He is one of the original members of the Russia Honey Bee Breeders Association and was President of the Russian Honeybee Breeders Association from 2012-2016 and currently serves on the board of directors.Steven currently produces and sells Russian queens and nucs throughout the country and produces honey from about 1500 Russian colonies.
This starter queen rearing book is perfect for hobby and sideline beekeepers. Rearing Queen Honey Bees book includes work with mating in areas that have African bees. Clear and well illustrated in black and white. While this book does not include bee genetics and breeding, it is designed to help a person begin their queen rearing activities.
Honey bees now live in all parts of the world except the extreme polar regions, but this was not always so. Until the 17th century they were confined to the Old World, where they had evolved and were widely distributed long before man appeared on earth. Primitive man harvested honey comb from bees' nests in hollow trees and rock crevices. The operation with Apis mellifera is shown in many rock paintings found in Africa, and some in Spain, and with other species of bees in India and Australia. It is still carried out in various parts of the world, and honey can be a lifesaving food for primitive peoples in times of severe famine.Beekeeping proper started when man learned to safeguard the future of swarms and colonies established from them, by a certain amount of care and supervi¬sion, keeping them in separate purpose-made hives which substituted for natu¬ral dwellings of bees. For convenience and safety, a number of hives were often sited together in an apiary. Hive construction depended on what materials were at hand, and on the local skills of various communities. It is almost certain that the beehive had no single origin: it was a likely development in any region populated by honey bees, when man changed from hunting and collecting food to producing it, and started a settled existence.The earliest centers of culture were in the Middle East, in hot, dry open country. Pottery vessels were made during most of the Neolithic period, from perhaps 5000 B. C. onwards, and the first hives there may have been pottery vessels in which swarms happened to settle. In ancient Egypt and other Mediterranean regions, long cylindrical hives were made of mud, clay or other materials, and used in a horizontal position. Ancient Egyptian drawings shows honey harvest¬ing about 1450 B.C. The beekeepers used smoke to drive the bees from the back of the hive to the front, and honey combs could be removed without kill¬ing bees; the brood combs were recognized and could be left intact. Hives in Ancient Greece followed a somewhat similar style, and fragments of pottery hives have been excavated from 26 sites. In hot, dry regions the hives were often stacked together, and sometimes embedded in a wall, to provide insulation against the heat.In agricultural communities, techniques were developed for making containers of basket work as well as pottery. Baskets were also used to house bees, and they have changed little through the ages; those of coiled straw are made today in the same way as before 5000 B.C. Wicker baskets were woven from materi¬als such as pliable hazel twigs.All these primitive hives fulfilled certain necessary functions: they protected the bees and their combs from wind, rain, and extremes of heat or cold; their flight entrances were made small enough for the bees to guard; and there was some other opening through which the beekeeper could get at the honey and wax which constituted his harvest. Wood, bark, and clay were themselves weath¬erproof; straw and wicker hives were generally protected with an additional cover, and wicker hives were often plastered with mud and cow dung.A large and healthy population is an absolute must for optimizing honey yield. Large colonies disproportionally produce more honey than smaller ones. In oth¬er words one colony of 60,000 bees will produce more honey than two colonies of 30,000 each combined, the larger the colony population, the greater honey production per bee.As the name "honey" bee implies, honey bees' natural tendency to prepare for winter by hoarding honey. Fall is when the preparation for population growth and subsequent honey yield begins. Keeping the bees healthy, strong and well provisioned is the first step in population management.Natural sources of hydrocarbons for honeybees are nectar and honeydew as well as honey produced from them. It is necessary to feed the bees, during long periods of adverse weather conditions and when there is no availability of flow or when beekeepers removed the hydrocarbon food from bees during honey harvest and there is no prospect for the flow to occur. The hydrocarbon food needs to be supplemented because during beekeeping season (from spring to winter feeding) a bee colony should have at least a 5 kg permanent hydrocarbon supply. A vital condition of the bee colonies to have good overwintering, is a proper winter food supply. The amount of food provided to bees, is a one-time dose and the time of supplying winter supplementation is an important element of the so-called winter feeding of bee colonies.Hope this book contributes in flourishing honey bees' products that contributes in its turn in our daily diets and health besides bees contributes to the provision of pollination services, assuring crop yields and helping maintain plant biodiversity in natural ecosystems.The publication was made possible due to the efforts and the expertise of the contributing authors. They are gratefully acknowledged.
Author : Terry Ryan Kane,Cynthia M. Faux Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Page : 401 pages File Size : 49,9 Mb Release : 2021-01-22 Category : Medical ISBN : 9781119583424
Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner by Terry Ryan Kane,Cynthia M. Faux Pdf
Ein unerlässliches Referenzwerk für die Gesunderhaltung von Honigbienen. Honey Bee Medicine for Veterinary Practitioners ist ein zuverlässiger Leitfaden für die Gesunderhaltung von Honigbienen und des Bienenstocks. Dieses Fachbuch für Veterinärmediziner und weitere Experten bietet nützliche Informationen, Antworten auf häufige Fragen und erleichtert die Untersuchung des Bienenstocks. Behandelt werden eine Vielzahl von Themen, von den Grundlagen der Haltung, Ausrüstung und Sicherheit über Anatomie und Genetik bis hin zu Diagnose und Management von Krankheiten. Aktuelle Informationen zur Varroa-Milbe und anderen Bienenschädlingen werden präsentiert, ebenso eine Einführung zur Pharmakologie und Toxikologie bei Bienen und zur Ökologie einheimischer Bienen. Inhalte des neuen Referenzwerks: - Leitfaden zur veterinärmedizinischen Betreuung von Honigbienen. - Informationen zu den Grundlagen der Haltung, zu Untersuchung, Verfahren, Fütterung u.v.m. - Erfolgreicher Umgang mit Fragen und ?Notfällen?. - Mit nützlichen Fotos, Zeichnungen, Tabellen und Grafiken. Das Fachbuch richtet sich an Veterinärmediziner, Studenten der Veterinärmedizin, Veterinärtechniker, Wissenschaftler und Bienenkundler. Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practioner ist ein praxisorientiertes und umfassendes Nachschlagewerk über die Gesunderhaltung von Honigbienen.
