Posted by admin | Posted in Book Review | Posted on 29-01-2012
Queen Breeding and Bee Genetics by Eigil Holm is an English translation of a Danish Book and it is immediately apparent 
that it shouldn’t be pitched at those who are perhaps not particularly scientific minded. In parts, despite it being a very informative book, it did remind me of past textbooks with scary looking diagrams all over the pages. Then again, that is exactly what genetics is all about; therefore perhaps I am being a little harsh.
What is immediately apparent in this book, 92 pages long and with some good colour photos to back up some of the descriptions, is that there is an incredible amount of information here in this book. Eigil Holm is obviously passionate about the topic and it shows. I would never every purport to be an expert at beekeeping and so initial chapters introducing the concepts of queen rearing were very interesting. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently I wrote a short blog article about Presents to give a Beekeeper and in that piece I wrote a small section about 
beekeeping books I would recommend. Though I had only received it a few days previously, an excellent beekeeping book review in the BBKA news and my initial impressions as I felt it and looked through it, meant that it had to be included in my recommendations for great books for beekeepers.
As with other Beekeeping Book Reviews let me just give you the fundamentals of this book. It is written by a passionate beekeeper and professional photographer, David Wootton. You can find his Photography website here. Therefore, as you can imagine being a photographer, the images throughout this 146 page book are by far the best photos you will see in a Beekeeping Book.In fact, the images throughout this beekeeping book review have been reproduced with David’s permission so I hope you like them. Read the rest of this entry »
It is that time of year again and yesterday my wife and I put up the Christmas Tree and decorations 
what a fabulous time of year. We have just been to Winter Wonderland and seen beekeeping stalls over there and so that has been my inspiration! It again got me thinking about what gifts you could buy a Beekeeper. Having looked around there seems so many different ideas that I felt I had to write a small blog about it. Therefore here are my ideas for beekeeping gifts this Christmas: Read the rest of this entry »
that it shouldn’t be pitched at those who are perhaps not particularly scientific minded. In parts, despite it being a very informative book, it did remind me of past textbooks with scary looking diagrams all over the pages. Then again, that is exactly what genetics is all about; therefore perhaps I am being a little harsh.