Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding
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“Written for beekeepers who know small about genetics and geneticists who know small about beekeeping.”
Few books deal so effectively with both the hands-on art of queen rearing and the scientific aspects of bee breeding as does this text. Professors Laidlaw and Page of the University of California, Davis, have prepared a comprehensive yet understandable book for both the beekeeper and the scientist.
Laidlaw, born in 1907, made vital discoveries about breeding methods using instrumental insemination during the 1940s. He spent his professional life at the U. of California, Davis, perfecting II technology to the top where it is widely used in bee breeding techniques. Moreover, he worked with commercial queen producers and developed reliable methods for producing quality queen bees for either natural or instrumental mating.
Page has developed modern bee breeding concepts using computer methodology. His closed populace breeding and mass selection techniques are widely used by bee breeders.
If you are a beekeeper interested in producing queen bees for your operation, this is an brilliant book for your study. If you are a scientist interested in techniques used in bee breeding, this book is also for you.
The book is calculated as a work-book textbook, with ample white space for notes and post-its. The twelve chapters cover history of bee breeding to a delightful ‘Whimsy’ section, and includes ‘Song of the sovereign Bee.’
There are many brilliant photographs and illustrations to help you know complex thoughts.
The first printing sold out quickly, and the book has been reprinted and is again available.
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Rating: 4 / 5
I WAS LOOKING FOR A TUTORIAL BOOK; THIS ONE IS NOT. I WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT IT WASN’T THE “HOW TO” BOOK I WAS LOOKING FOR.
Rating: 2 / 5
I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Page in 2002, and this book helped me to know the fundamentals of queen rearing. Although I like technical books, when it comes to honey bees, I found it honest-forward and a worthwhile text. Although I didn’t have to rear my own queens for my experiment, it helped to know how bees are bred for traits and the administer that is caught up with breeding honey bees.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m biased–H.H.Laidlaw is my father, he is 91 years ancient and artificial insemination of honey bees has been his life work. This book has a fantastic “look” on the page–many illustrations and photos. Fascinating to “non-Bee-people” and really all about sex!
Rating: 5 / 5
The beginning of the book that covers the logistics of getting ready to breed bees/rear queens is done honestly well. There is a lot of fantastic in rank on what you’ll need to do to get setup for the administer. The section on genetics has a lot of less helpful infomation and is poorly organized. I am not well versed in genetics, but I do have a strong background in Science (Math, Physics, and Chemistry) and one of my other leisure activities besides beekeeping is cosmology. Most of the technical terms were not well defined and although the writter(s) of the genetics section of this book may be 100% right and aptly on with there in rank, their ability to relate this in rank to the layperson (even one like me with an extensive background in science, just not genetics) was extremely poor.
If you are serious about bee breeding/queen rearing, you should probably have this book as an additional reference. As this is the first book I have read on the theme, I cannot urge another book. I can urge checking with your district extension offices and/or your state universities to see if they have more in rank on this theme or offer classes.
The University of Minnesota offers a class on sovereign Rearing every summer. This year it will be over July 7-9, 2006. Here’s the link: http://www.extension.umn.edu/honeybees/components/publiccourses.htm
I took this same class in July of 2004. It offered hands-on experience where everyone in the class got a opportunity to implant queens and learn the administer of queen rearing. Lots of excellent class-room time and literature. If you have the option of doing something like this, I would strongly urge it.
Rating: 3 / 5