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  "map_content": "Index to David Heaf's Warr\u00e9 beekeeping pages\r\nMy honey\r\nWarr\u00e9 beekeeping English web portal: http://warre.biobees.com/index.html\r\nWarr\u00e9 beekeeping e-Group: https://groups.google.com/g/warrebeekeeping\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Bee-friendly Beekeeper\r\nIn recent years, beekeepers on several continents have been suffering heavy losses of colonies. If we systematically investigate factors causing the losses, we can justifiably ask whether the way in which honey bees are kept is part of the problem. Could hive design, frames, foundation, intrusion, artificial queen breeding, drone suppression, queen excluders, artificial feeding, medication, transhumance and overstocking - all elements of modern beekeeping - be reducing the vitality of bees?\r\nThis book examines the issues surrounding these practices, drawing where possible on the primary literature in bee biology and apiculture, in order to identify an approach to keeping bees that is more bee-appropriate, more apicentric. It also analyses the fundamental attitudes underlying the different ways in which we choose to keep bees.\r\nHoneycomb is now known to be much more than just the skeleton of the bee colony superorganism. A case is presented for making natural comb the centre of a way of beekeeping that better respects the nature of the honey bee by allowing its species-specific behaviours to be expressed. This is apicentric beekeeping.\r\nAmong the hives based on relatively natural comb, the author presents the top-bar hive of \u00c9mile Warr\u00e9 as a practical and economical alternative to frame hives and describes the bee-friendly features of its operation. The book includes construction plans and modern tips for its management. Contents & Preface\r\npublished by Northern Bee Books, 14 September 2010\r\nISBN: 978-1-904846-60-4\r\npaperback, 170 x 244 mm, 160 pages\r\n80 colour illustrations and 16 line drawings\r\nfully annotated with supporting 117-reference bibliography including up-to-date apiological and apicultural primary literature\r\nthoroughly indexed\r\nsuitable for beginners who already have a basic knowledge of the life of the honey bee, as well as for beekeepers with experience who want to discover a more bee-friendly way, either with their existing hives or with the Warr\u00e9 hive\r\nprinted on recycled paper\r\n\u00a323.50 (GB pounds) + carriage from Northern Bee Books\r\nReviews \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reader's comments (PDF)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nAmendments and addendum of second impression (2011)\r\nThe Bee-friendly Beekeeper orders:\r\nShipping to UK and worldwide destinations, direct from the publisher:\r\nNorthern Bee Books\r\nScout Bottom Farm\r\nMytholmroyd\r\nHebden Bridge\r\nHX7 5JS\r\nUK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nTel: +44 (0)1422 882751\u00a0\u00a0 Fax: +44 (0)1422 886157\u00a0\r\nEmail Northern Bee Books: jerry@northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nhttp://northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nhttp://facebook.com/northernbeebooks\r\nPlease note: Shipping to the USA direct from the publisher (Northern Bee Books) generally takes about a week.\r\nOnline sales outlets for The Bee-friendly Beekeeper:\r\nUK\r\nGreen Shopping; Arden Books; IBRA Store; Waterstones; Amazon; Biodynamic Agricultural Association;\r\nBeechwood Bees; WH Smith; Thornes; Bees For Development; Campus; National Bee Supplies\r\nUSA\r\nMatt Reed (Oregon): http://www.beethinking.com (listed for sale 2 January 2011)\r\nBill Bezuk (Oregon): http://eugenebackyardfarmer.com (no online sales)\r\nAmazon\r\nAustralia\r\nEmporium Books\r\nBob's Beekeeping Supplies\r\nNew Zealand\r\nKoanga Gardens Centre for Sustainable Living: http://www.koanga.org.nz/shop/animal-health (listed for ale 4 January 2011)\r\nPDF flyer for The Bee-friendly Beekeeper\r\nFrench version\r\nUne ruche respectueuse des abeilles: la ruche Warr\u00e9\r\n\r\n\r\nCommentaires\r\nUne traduction de The Bee-friendly Beekeeper, mis \u00e0 jour. Traduction: Muriel Levet\r\nhttps://www.terran.fr/ruche-warre-heaf-livre-editions-terran.html\r\nAmazon\r\nSwedish version\r\nDen biv\u00e4nlige biodlaren : ett h\u00e5llbart f\u00f6rh\u00e5llningss\u00e4tt\r\n\r\n\r\nhttps://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/den-bivanlige-biodlaren-ett-hallbart-forhallningssatt-9789177854951\r\n\r\n\r\nNatural Beekeeping with the Warr\u00e9 Hive -- A Manual\r\nKeeping bees in a more natural way is growing in popularity throughout the world. Older hive designs are being reappraised, and methods that have been used for over a century are being questioned.\r\nThe People's Hive of Abb\u00e9 \u00c9mile Warr\u00e9 (1867-1951) is one of the older designs that beekeepers find particularly attractive. Several commercial honey producers have already adapted it to fit their needs. Warr\u00e9's one-size box with top-bars, natural comb and insulating quilt, create ideal conditions for colony vitality and survival, as well as reducing consumption of honey stores in winter. The hive is now used worldwide in climates ranging from the tropics to the ta\u00efga.\r\nThis inspiring, practical, clearly laid out book contains everything you need to know in order to build and run a Warr\u00e9 hive. Amongst others, topics include tools, siting, obtaining and hiving bees, monitoring, feeding, wintering, enlarging the hive, harvesting and extracting honey with simple kitchen equipment. An ideal book for the aspiring natural beekeeper. Preface & Contents\r\npublished by Northern Bee Books, April 2013\r\nISBN: 978-1-908904-38-6\r\npaperback, 170 x 244 mm, 104 pages\r\n50 B&W illustrations and 17 line drawings\r\nthoroughly indexed\r\nsuitable for beginners who already have a basic knowledge of the life of the honey bee, as well as for beekeepers with experience who want to start Warr\u00e9 beekeeping\r\n\u00a312.00 (GB pounds) + carriage from Northern Bee Books\r\nErrata in initial print runs \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reviews\r\nNatural Beekeeping with the Warr\u00e9 hive -- A Manual orders:\r\nShipping to UK and worldwide destinations, direct from the publisher:\r\nNorthern Bee Books\r\nScout Bottom Farm\r\nMytholmroyd\r\nHebden Bridge\r\nHX7 5JS\r\nUK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nTel: +44 (0)1422 882751\u00a0\u00a0 Fax: +44 (0)1422 886157\u00a0\r\nEmail Northern Bee Books: jerry@northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nhttp://northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nhttp://facebook.com/northernbeebooks\r\nAmazon\r\nDutch version\r\n\r\n\r\nNatuurimkeren met de Warr\u00e9-kast. Een handleiding\r\nNederlandse vertaling Tom Bruwier, 2019\r\nwww.northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nwww.amazon.co.uk\u00a0\r\nItalian version (traduzione italiano)\r\n\r\n\r\nL'apicoltura naturale con l'arnia Warr\u00e9 -- un manuale\r\ntraduzione dall\u2019inglese: Luca Vitali\r\nformato: 15 x 21 cm, pp. 208, con tavole, disegni e foto b/n\r\ncollana: Apilogia 07\r\nISBN 9788898-186136\r\nprezzo: 20 euro\r\nUSCITA: marzo 2016\r\nhttp://edizionimontaonda.blogspot.it/\r\nhttp://edizionimontaonda.blogspot.co.uk/\r\nSwedish (Svenska) version\r\n\r\n\r\nNaturlig Biodling med Warr\u00e9 Kupan\r\n\u00d6vers\u00e4ttare: Stefan Breitholtz\r\nSpr\u00e5k: Svenska\r\nAntal sidor: 116\r\nUtg.datum: 2013-11-16\r\nF\u00f6rlag: Books on Demand\r\nKomponenter: Paperback\r\nISBN: 9789174633801\r\nhttp://www.bokus.com/bok/9789174639988/naturlig-biodling-med-warre-kupan/\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTreatment-Free Beekeeping\r\n\r\nSince varroa arrived in Europe and America in the 1980\u2019s, most beekeepers have found it necessary to treat their colonies with chemicals in order to avoid heavy colony losses. But a minority of beekeepers have managed to care for their colonies without the use of chemicals and have done so with not just tolerable colony losses, but with losses that are sometimes equal to or smaller than the losses of those beekeepers who treat with chemicals. With the help of thirty examples of treatment-free beekeepers in Europe and America, including famous names in varroa-resistant bee breeding, this book documents the encouraging success and growing popularity of beekeeping without chemicals, and details the bee husbandries of the beekeepers presented.\r\n\r\nContents\r\n\r\nIntroduction\r\n1. Uses of chemicals and why we stop using\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 them\r\n2. My bee husbandry and some statistics\r\n3. Darwinian beekeeping\r\n4. Ethics, laws and social implications of\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 treatment-free beekeeping\r\n5. The Gwynedd experience\r\n6. Varroa treatment-free projects in Europe and\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 America\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Austria, Canada, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy,\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom,\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 USA\r\n7. Biotechnical treatments against varroa \u2013\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a half-way house to treatment-free\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mesh floors (screened bottom boards), Mite trapping \u2013 caging\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the queen on comb, Mite trapping \u2013 removing drone brood,\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heat treatment, Small-cell comb, Pseudoscorpions, Feeding\r\n8. Minimising colony losses in treatment-free\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beekeeping with particular reference to\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 varroa\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bee race, Bee genetics, Hive type, Colony management,\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colony nutrition\r\nUseful links\r\nGlossary\r\nAcknowledgements\r\nIndex\r\n\r\nCorrections & Addendum\r\n\r\nReview by Paul Honigman\r\nPublished by Northern Bee Books, January 2021\r\nISBN: ISBN: 978-1-913811-00-6\r\npaperback, 170 x 244 mm, 120 pages\r\n34 colour illustrations\r\nthoroughly indexed\r\n\u00a324.95 (GB pounds) + carriage from Northern Bee Books\r\nShipping to UK and worldwide destinations, direct from the publisher:\r\nNorthern Bee Books\r\nScout Bottom Farm\r\nMytholmroyd\r\nHebden Bridge\r\nHX7 5JS\r\nUK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nTel: +44 (0)1422 882751\u00a0\u00a0 Fax: +44 (0)1422 886157\u00a0\r\nEmail Northern Bee Books: jerry@northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nhttp://northernbeebooks.co.uk\r\nhttp://facebook.com/northernbeebooks\r\n\u00a0\r\nSwedish version\r\nBehandlings-Fri Biodling\r\nTranslated by Stefan Breitholtz\u00a0\r\n\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\nhttps://www.bod.se/bokshop/behandlings-fri-biodling-david-heaf-9789180077095\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBiodling utan Kemikalier (alternative title)\r\n\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\r\nhttps://www.bod.se/bokshop/biodling-utan-kemikalier-9789179696405\r\n\u00a0\r\nWeb pages on beekeeping with the Warr\u00e9 hive\r\nDetails of and how to order Beekeeping for All by Abb\u00e9 \u00c9mile Warr\u00e9\r\nNorthern Bee Books online sales page for Beekeeping for All\r\nEnglish web portal for Warr\u00e9 beekeeping at biobees.com\r\nDavid Heaf's Warr\u00e9 experiment\r\nReply to Glyn Davies Why I worry about the Warr\u00e9 (Devon BKA journal, August 2010)\r\nWaxing Warr\u00e9 top-bars\r\nPreparing top-bar cover cloths\r\nBait hives\r\nWarr\u00e9-type bait hive\r\nFunnel for shook swarming bees into a Warr\u00e9 hive box\r\nNational hive to Warr\u00e9 hive adapter for artificial swarms from National hives\r\nHiving a swarm from a bait hive into a Warr\u00e9\r\nTaranov swarming a National hive into a Warr\u00e9 hive\r\nBee vacuum for use with Warr\u00e9 box\r\nDiary of a swarm caught in a bait hive and housed in a Warr\u00e9 hive at Gwenynfa 'D'\r\nWarr\u00e9 comb photos\r\nBearding at Warr\u00e9 hive entrances\r\nChanging a Warr\u00e9 hive floor with a Gatineau lift\r\nNadiring Warr\u00e9 hives, April 2010\r\n8-way clearer board\r\nExtracting honey\r\nPressing honeycomb\r\nHive weighing device\r\nNational hive Ashforth feeder on a Warr\u00e9 hive\r\nPutting candy on a Warr\u00e9 hive\r\nRenewing a box full of brood and bees\r\nSolar extractor\r\nWax extraction by boiling\r\nCandlemaking\r\nWarr\u00e9 hive scale and data logger construction\u00a0\u00a0 Data\r\n\u00a0\r\nVideos\r\nBrief presentation on how I make my Warr\u00e9 hive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVn-NZTfus\r\n(N.B. Mention of the top-bar cloth was inadvertently omitted.)\r\nInterview by Felix Remter for a film on treatment free beekeeping: https://vimeo.com/157019200?ref=fb-share&1\r\nInterview by Jan-Michael Sch\u00fctt on treatment free beekeeping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCY6EZkgxE\r\n\u00a0\r\nArticles\r\nThe Essence of Sustainable Beekeeping\r\nKeynote address to Britain's first Natural Beekeeping Conference, 2011\u00a0\r\nTowards Sustainable Beekeeping\r\nA compilation of a 4-part article serialised in The Beekeepers Quarterly 2008 with an introduction on beekeeping ethics.\r\n(Part of this article has been translated into French)\r\nSustainable & Bee-friendly Beekeeping -- Australian Bee Journal 89(2), Feb 2008\r\nSustainable Bee-Friendly Beekeeping -- New View\u00a0 -- adapted from 2-part article in Permaculture Magazine (2009)\r\nDo Small Cells Help Bees Cope With Varroa? -- The Beekeepers' Quarterly, 104, June 2011, 39-45.\r\nLetter to the editor of the American Bee Journal Sep 2011 -- responding to an article on the Warr\u00e9 hive by Jerry Hayes\r\nHoney from brood comb is dirty -- a refutation\r\nNestduftw\u00e4rmebindung: a useful hypothesis or just 'complete nonsense'? -- The Welsh Beekeeper 206, Winter 2019\r\nGwynedd winter losses summary -- BBKA News, August 2015\r\nStatistical analysis of Gwynedd winter losses by Dorian Pritchard, BBKA News, December 2015\r\nBee guided pharmacognosy and the Warr\u00e9 hive -- BBKA News July 2016\r\nSurvey of hive winter weight loss rates in UK, USA & Japan 2017\r\nDealing with Varroa -- Natural selection or artificial selection? -- Natural Bee Husbandry August 2017 German version\r\nThe book scorpion, a welcome guest in bee colonies Beier (1951) Translation from the original German\r\nDoes the Varroa resistance trait follow the queen when she is used to re-queen another colony without the trait? A review.\r\n\u00a0\r\nVarious Warr\u00e9 hives and their contents\r\nApiary visits April 2008 & 2009\r\nWarr\u00e9 hives at Kinlet apiary (2008)\r\nWarr\u00e9 and National hives at main apiary (May 2008)\r\nSpring visit to Warr\u00e9 hives 2009\r\nWarr\u00e9 colony die-outs 2009\r\nRemodelling comb in box 2 of a Warr\u00e9 hive\r\nWarr\u00e9 hive toppled by wind 2016\r\n\u00a0\r\nSwarms and ferals\r\nLlanystumdwy church feral colony\r\nCapel Uchaf Council house chimney (disused)\r\nBee removals\r\nExtreme beekeeping\r\n\u00a0\r\nMiscellaneous\r\nWarr\u00e9 hive humidity studies\r\nWarr\u00e9 hive thermology studies\r\nComparison of thermal performances of Warr\u00e9 and National hives\r\nModified Warr\u00e9 hive temperature monitoring (6 sensors)\r\nModified Lazutin hive temperature monitoring (6 sensors)\r\nWarr\u00e9 hive thermology\r\nReview of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping by Dean Stiglitz & Laurie Herboldsheimer (PDF)\r\nNatural comb -- natural variability of comb spacing according to position in the nest\r\nCell size -- article by Eric Zeissloff on cell size measurements in natural comb in the last 300 years\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- article by David Heaf on cell size measurements in natural comb in the last 340 years\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- recent cell size measurements on feral and Warr\u00e9 comb\r\nForage\r\nBees drinking through a piece of concrete sitting in a puddle of water\r\nThe Wild Hive of Claude Bralet \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Heaf's 'wild hive' \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Haverson's 'wild hive'\r\nModified Lazutin hive\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Modified Einraumbeute\u00a0 David Junker's bentwood & reeds trough hive\r\nMiscellaneous beekeeping photos and images\r\nScientific papers bibliography, mostly with abstracts, relating to near-natural beekeeping\r\nReview notes on publications on the subject of hive insulation",
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