LSBees
11-09-2009, 05:11 PM
I am looking for recomendations on good books. I need to learn more about Queen rearing and making sucesful splits.
Thanks
RayMarler
11-09-2009, 05:30 PM
Some of the best information for rearing queens can be found here for the price of your ISP Internet connection...
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueenrearing.htm
Best of luck to you!
One of my favorite passages I've read concerning queen rearing, I found in
Scientific Queen Rearing as Practically Applied by G.M.Doolittle in Chapter 23, Paragraph 1:
CHAPTER XXIII. REARING A FEW QUEENS.
No apiarist-no matter how few bees he may keep-should consider that he has done his duty by his "pets" until he has learned how to rear Queens. Not only is this a duty which he owes to himself, but in the doing of it he will find the most fascinating part of apiculture. I know of nothing so enticing, or of anything that will so completely absorb the mind, and get one out of that complaining mood which we sometimes fall into, as will the rearing of Queens. When at this work, minutes and hours fly away as though they were not, and even a whole day spent in the closest of this work is only considered a day of recreation. Here we can get away from self and the cares of life, and be led out along a higher plain of thought-thought which grasps, to some degree at least, the mind of our Creator, when He made so many things for the comfort and enjoyment of us, His children. In no one thing can the handiwork of God be seen more, than in this particular branch of our beloved pursuit.
Specialkayme
11-10-2009, 12:02 PM
Nice quote.
The more people refer to Mike, the more convinced I am that he should write a book.
jdpro5010
11-10-2009, 12:39 PM
He has he just gives it away for free in the form of a website! Thank you Mr. Bush for your contributions!