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Book synopsis

Bumblebee keeping is a unique enterprise. Forget what you know of (honey) beekeeping: this is a different game, and Nelson Pomeroy lays it bare.

In a candid account of his career as a student, scientist, businessman and teacher, he details most aspects of working with bumblebees: outdoor nesting sites, laboratory observation hives, crop pollination and commercial-scale rearing. His innovations range from specialist concrete to electric heating systems, mass-producible colony starting containers and bumblebee feeding systems. 

Bumblebee colonies are small, with a peak of up to a few hundred bees. He grapples with this from various angles-from measuring colony productivity and foraging strength to measuring pollination stocking rates.

Bumblebee Keeper blends a personal narrative with practical information. It will interest readers from pollination management through bee biologists to those with an interest in agro-technologies. It concludes with a selection of bumblebee conservation issues and challenges decision-makers on the best approach to sustainability of pollination for food security.

Book details

• Full title: Bumblebee Keeper
• Author: Nelson Pomeroy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781914934568
• ISBN: 1914934563
• ID: 43450957
• Publisher: Northern Bee Books
• Weight: 462 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. May 2023

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