Beekeeping Related Articles
This section of the site contains links to numerous beekeeping articles which all relate to a wide range of subjects connected to honeybees, beekeeping and honeybee products. It is currently being updated to contain reports and articles in various downloadable formats including webpages, plain text, Microsoft ® Word 
and *Adobe Acrobat Reader 
files. These will be added as they become available. Those provied below are intended as a taster!
- BBKA Articles for Beekeepers
- Lifecycle of the Honeybee (BBKA)
- Hive Products for Show
- Winter Feeding - replying to a question raised on Wikispace document.
- FAT BEES skinny bees-"a manual on honey bee nutrition for beekeepers"-a comprehensive (150 pages) report from Australia
- Mead Making - A report by DT on a presentation given by David Lishman Text and formats.
- "Bee Death in the USA"An analysis of Colony Collapse Disorder by Dr Wolfgang Ritter (July 2007)
- Honey bee diseases and pests a practical guide (42 pages; 2006) by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Monitor the level of varroa in your colonies, to help you to decide when you need to treat, with this calculator from CSL
- An excellent overview of Varroa with management options, by Moray Beekeepers
- Links to interesting articles on Varroa, by Moray Beekeepers
- An open site reduces varroa compared to a sheltered site; also south or southwest facing entrance is better than north facing
- Screen floors reduce varroa and make Apistan more effective
Varroa Control
*Adobe Acrobat reader is obtainable as a free download.
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