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The Australian native bee book : keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey / by Tim Heard.

The Australian native bee book : keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey / by Tim Heard.
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ISBN 9780646939971
Name Heard, Tim author.
Title The Australian native bee book : keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey / by Tim Heard.
Published West End, Queensland : Sugarbag Bees, 2016.
©2016.
Description x, 246 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Notes Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book describes native bees generally and provides a complete guide to keeping Australian native stingless bees. It is richly illustrated with over 500 photos, drawings and charts to increase accessibility and aid learning. It is written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged with these unique creatures. Keeping native stingless bees is a hot topic in Australia for commercial, environmental and recreational reasons. You can do something about the decline of pollinators by conserving native bees. Whether you keep a hive or two in your suburban garden, or want to use multiple hives on a commercial farm, this friendly guide has you covered. Bee biology, behaviour, nesting, social life and foraging * How to build your own native bee hive * How to transfer a bee colony to a hive box and propagate hives * All about sugarbag honey, including how to extract it from hives * Managing your hive * Identifying and dealing with pests * Using stingless bees for pollination - from small gardens to commercial crops * A complete list of Australia's stingless bee species, how to identify them, their characteristics, where they occur, and recommended hives * A readable summary of the latest research on native bees.
Awards note Shortlisted, Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, year 2017.
Subjects Bee culture -- Australia
Bees -- Australia
Stingless bees -- Australia
Bees -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Stingless bees -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Australia
Other Names Dollin, Anne author.
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