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Este livro é sobre ter abelhas num sistema natural e prático onde elas não requerem tratamentos de pragas e doenças e apenas com intervenções mínimas. É também sobre apicultura simples e prática. É sobre reduzir o seu trabalho. Não é um livro de apicultura convencional. Muitos dos conceitos são contrários aos da apicultura "convencional". As técnicas apresentadas foram simplificadas através de décadas de experimentação, ajustes e simplificação. O conteúdo foi escrito e depois aperfeiçoado a partir das respostas a questões em fóruns sobre abelhas durante anos então está adaptado às questões que os apicultores, novos e experientes têm.

Cet ouvrage traite de la manière d'élever des abeilles dans un système pratique et naturel ne nécessitant que de minimes interventions et où les abeilles n'ont nul besoin de traitements contre les parasites et les maladies. Il traite aussi de l'apiculture pratique simple et de la réduction de la charge de travail de l'apiculteur. Il ne s'agit pas d'un ouvrage classique d'apiculture. La plupart des concepts sont contraires à l'apiculture « conventionnelle ». Les techniques présentées ici, ont été perfectionnées pendant des dizaines d'années d'expérimentation, d'ajustement et de simplification. Le contenu a été rédigé et amélioré à partir de réponses à des questions posées sur des forums d'apiculture au fil des ans, de manière à être adapté aux questions que se posent les apiculteurs, qu'ils soient débutants ou expérimentés. Le présent manuel est divisé en trois volumes et cette édition contient ces trois volumes : débutant, intermédiaire et avancé.

A compendium of classic queen rearing books by G.M. Doolittle, C.C. Miller, Henry Alley, Jay Smith, Isaac Hopkins and Frank Pellett with an overview by Michael Bush. These are the foundation of almost all queen rearing done today, all in one binding. These men laid the groundwork and worked out the details of practical systems of queen rearing. Pellet did a lot of distilling down of the various systems, which is very valuable, Smith perfected a lot of what Doolittle started. Miller and Hopkins were the queen rearing examples for the beekeeper who just wanted a few good queens for themselves.If you want to raise queens, these books are the place to start.

What Huber discovered and wrote about here, laid the ground work for all the practical knowledge we have of bees today. His discoveries were so revolutionary, that beekeeping can be divided in two eras very easily as pre-Huber and post-Huber. This edition of Huber's Observations by far surpasses any other edition ever printed in the English language. First it has both Volume I and II, while every English edition currently in print that I am aware of is only Volume I of the 1809 edition. which is only a third of the final Huber book. The second volume was published in 1814 in French 5 years after that 1809 edition and contains Huber's research on the origin of wax, the construction of comb, the ventilation of the hive and much more. Second, it is the best English translation from the original French and the only one I know of that has both volumes. C.P. Dadant, was uniquely qualified to do the translation. Dadant was born in France and French was his first language, yet he spent most of his life beekeeping; and writing and editing beekeeping articles and books in America in English. Third, all of the English editions currently in print have only 2 plates (if any). Only the previous Dadant edition (1926) had all 14 of the original plates but unfortunately they were only halftones of some old yellow copies and are not very readable. This edition has new scans from a very good condition edition of the original 1814 French of both Volumes of Nouvelles Observations Sur Les Abeilles so these are clearer than any previous edition other than the original 1814 French edition. An additional engraving of Huber's work from Cheshire's book, plus an engraving of Francis Huber from the Dadant edition have been included. In addition, 7 more photos of a museum quality reproduction of Huber's Leaf hive have also been included. All figures have been split out and enlarged and put in the text where they are referred to. Photos of the original plates are included at the back for historic and artistic purposes. Fourth, to put this book in context I have included a memoir of Huber by Professor De Candolle, a friend of Huber. This gives a bit of background on Huber's life. Fifth, the only other edition to come close to this, the 1926 edition by Dadant, was in very small print. This one is 12 point and a typeface that appears to be larger and is very readable.