General Beekeeping

Authors: Keith S. Delaplane and Daniel F. Mayer
No. of pages: 344
Hard cover

This book is an accessible, practical and authoritative research-based guide to using bees for crop pollination.

The three main sections address the biology of pollination, methods of culturing and conserving bees for optimum pollination, and the pollination requirements and recommendations for individual crops. This last section includes 42 short chapters on different crops.

Essential reading for researchers, those studying entomology, crop science and ecology and those working in the field with bees.

Contains black and white photographs and illustrations.