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He wrote or co-wrote a number of works on beekeeping and botany. With Gaston Bonnier (1853–1922), he was co-author of a book on apiculture called "Cours complet d'apiculture" and a publication on plants of northern France and Belgium titled "Nouvelle flore du Nord de la France et de la Belgique". Other publications associated with Layens include:
He tried Quinby's and Langstroth's frame sizes and also developed his own frame size of 12" x 13" (30.5 × 33 cm), which he also recommended in a French-language pamphlet, Petit Cours D'Apiculture, in 1874. He quickly abandoned that kind of beekeeping for the modern Langstroth hive concept. Bee hives have often been designed and built without ...
A honeybee drinking water. Melittology (from Greek μέλιττα, melitta, "bee"; and -λογία-logia) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of bees.It can also be called apiology or apicology.
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Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept.
Charles-Edwards and Kelly divide the tract into five sections: a section on the relations between a keeper of a hive and his neighbours (§§1-26); a section on injuries to persons caused by bees (§§27-35); a section on the ownership of swarms (§§36-49); and a section on the theft of bees (§§50-54); ending with a colophon (§§55).
Precision beekeeping (PB) (also known as precision apiculture) is an apiary management strategy based on the monitoring of individual bee colonies to minimize resource consumption and maximize the productivity of bees. [1] It can be considered a branch of precision agriculture. Similar to it, implementation of Precision Beekeeping can also be ...
Apimondia or International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations promotes scientific, ecological, social and economic apicultural development in all countries and the cooperation of beekeepers` associations, scientific bodies and of individuals involved in apiculture worldwide.