Love for Bees Sweetens Your Life: Notes on Beekeeping

Authors

Edmundo Teodoro Jerves Jerves
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26871/EDUNICA.156

Keywords:

Beekeeping, Bees, Hive, Pollination, Bee Products, Bee Health

Synopsis

The love for bees sweetens our lives and urgently invites us to become aware of the care of our Common Home, especially regarding the state of living beings and their fragile environment.

Knowledge about the life of bees becomes essential in the face of the world’s current circumstances. It is important to know that they continue to survive in nature and have indirectly contributed to the well-being of the human species—almost unnoticed.

It is our concern to try to instruct, in a few words, the new generations and to train beekeepers so that, with a clear understanding, they may care for bees, which are indispensable for the pollination of flowering plants that produce wood, grasses, fruits, and grains, thus supporting the development of a rational agricultural industry.

We defend bees when we prevent desertification, care for water sources, and prevent the pollution of the seas, the degradation of air quality, and global warming—urgent issues on which our work insists and that must be clearly exposed for the community to discern.

The disappearance of species is an issue that includes more than 20,000 types of bees, and it is a one-way journey we are headed toward. By caring for Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola, 1803, we are also gifted with its virtuous production of honey.

Chapters

  • Generalities, Anatomy, and Nutrition
  • The Life of Bees
  • They are an essential link in the chain of life
  • Beehive Products
  • Sustainable Beekeeping
  • Honeycombs and Honey
  • Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment
  • Work in the Apiary
  • Essential Skills to Learn
  • Enemies, Pests, and Diseases
  • Important Notes for Beekeepers
  • Interesting Facts about Hymenoptera

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Author Biography

Edmundo Teodoro Jerves Jerves

En 1977, siendo aún estudiante de agronomía, surgió en el autor un profundo amor por las abejas. En aquel entonces, comenzó a esbozar las primeras ideas en cinco cuadernos, que luego quedaron  abandonados en algún rincón entre sus libros. A raíz de la pandemia de Covid-19 y durante el retiro temporal de su práctica como médico ecografista, redescubrió aquellos escritos y organizó las ideas para ponerlas al alcance de aficionados y apicultores de Latinoamérica.

El amor por las abejas ha endulzado su vida y lo ha motivado a dedicar un denodado esfuerzo para conservar la polinización de las plantas, preservar la integridad del medio ambiente y asegurar un espacio de bienestar en la biósfera para estos insectos himenópteros. El dicho popular “el viento es viejo y todavía sigue soplando”, en cierta manera evoca la persistencia generosa de la naturaleza y refuerza el compromiso del autor con esta noble causa.

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Published

January 23, 2025

Series

Ciencias, Ingeniería y Medio Ambiente
Copyright (c) 2025 EDUNICA

Details about this monograph

ISBN-13 (15)

978-9942-27-314-7

Physical Dimensions

150mm x 210mm