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Index
List of illustrations ix
List of photographs xi
Introduction xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1
Profiting from a gold mine
Coping with bee stings
Bees and learning
Researching
The world is your oyster
2
Bee
Queen
Worker
Drone
The politics of the hive, or ‘who tells whom what to do?’
The birth of a queen
Colony nest requirements
The beekeeper’s role
Summary
3
Collecting
Harvesting royal jelly
Producing
propolis
venom
Harvesting
44
4
Choosing the type of beehive
Buying second-hand hives
Obtaining new hives or making your own
Clothing
Obtaining
Acquiring gentle bees
Starting beekeeping: a summary
Acquiring the equipment
What
5
Arranging insurance in rural and urban areas
81
6
Swarming
Supersedure
Building up the colony
113
7
Supering
honey
Extracting the honey
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