The Practical Beekeeper Volume III Advanced Beekeeping Naturally

Volume III Advanced 459 Genetics 461 The Need for Genetic Diversity 461 Feral Bees Have Maintained This 462 What can we do? 462 Feral Bees 464 Swarms 466 Capturing a swarm 467 Removal 469 Cone Method 470 Bee Vacuum 472 Transplanting Bees 473 Bait hives. 475 Queen Rearing 477 Why rear your own queens? 477 Cost 477 Time 477 Availability 478 AHB 478 Acclimatized bees 478 Mite and disease resistance 478 Quality 479 Concepts of Queen Rearing 479 Reasons to rear queens 479 Emergency 479 Supersedure 480 Reproductive swarming 480 Overcrowding swarm 480 Most Queens with Least Resources 480 Where queens come from 481 Methods of getting larvae into "queen cups" 481 The Doolittle Method 482 The Jenter method 482 Advantages to Jenter 485 Advantages to grafting 485 The Hopkins Method 486 Cell Starter 489 Beekeeping Math 490 Queen Rearing Calendar: 491 Mating Nucs 493 A note on mating nucs 494 Queen marking colors: 496 Queen Catching and marking 497 Jay Smith 498 Queen longevity: 499 Emergency queens: 499 C.C. Miller 500 Queen Banks 501 FWOF 502 Nucs 504 Optimal Space 504 Various Sized Nucs 504 Overwintering Nucs 505 Feeding dry sugar 511 What Nucs are Good For: 512 Splits 512 Artificial swarm 512 Making queens from swarm cells 512 Keeping a backup queen 512 Foolproof requeening 513 Queen bank 513 Comb building 513 Swarm catching 514 Bait hives 514 Shaken swarms 514 Transporting honey 514 Lighter Equipment 515 Mediums instead of deeps 515 Eight frame instead of ten frame 516 Wax Dipping Equipment 525 Colony Decisions 528 Two Queen Hives 530 Top Bar Hives 532 Kenya Top Bar Hive 532 Tanzanian Top Bar Hive 538 Comb Measurements 540 FAQs 541 Wintering 541 Tropical? 542 Excluder? 542 Harvest 543 Top Entrance? 543 Sloped Sides? 544 Varroa? 544 Feeding? 544 Management? 545 Production? 546 SBB? 547 Cross Ventilation 547 Landing board? 548 Length? 548 Bar Width 549 Comb Guide 549 Waxing Guides 550 Slatted Rack 550 Horizontal Hives 551 Management 553 Observation Hives 554 Why an observation hive? 554 Pictures of Different Kinds of Observation Hives 554 Getting an Observation Hive 561 You Can Build One or Buy One 561 Glass or Plexiglas 561 Other Nice Features 562 Exit 562 Privacy 562 Observation Hive Issues 563 Frame Size 563 Overall Size 563 Space Between the Glass 564 Feeder 564 Ventilation 565 Robbing 565 Disconnecting 565 Working the Hive 566 Box Jig 568 Miscellaneous Equipment 573 Top Clip 573 Hive Stand 574 Plantain 575 Bucket Float 576 Smoker Insert 577 Wiring Tools 578 Things I did not invent 580 Beespace 580 Using All Mediums 581 Using 8 frame boxes 582 Top Bar Hives 582 Foundationless Frames 583 Narrow Frames 584 Long Hives 585 Smoker Insert 586 Not Painting Hives 587 Small Cell Beekeeping 588 Top Entrances 588 Opening the Brood Nest 589 Beekeeping Math 591 Unnatural Things in Beekeeping 593 Scientific Studies 596 Quotes 596 Not Proven Scientifically. 602 Differences in observations in general and as an example, differences in cell size observations. 604 Discounting scientific studies 608 Worldview 610 Empirical Vs Statistical 610 Natural Things 613 Paradigms. 615 Scientific numerics in complex systems 618 It's not that simple 618 Weight as an example 619 Overwintering as another example 620 Requeening a Hot Hive 625 Divide and conquer. 625 CCD 628