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A. J. Cook author of The Bee-Keepers' Guide; or Manual of the Apiary, 1876. [47] Dr. C.C. Miller was one of the first entrepreneurs to make a living from apiculture. By 1878, he made beekeeping his sole business activity. His book, Fifty Years Among the Bees, remains a classic and his influence on bee management persists into the 21st century. [48]
The book is organized into ten chapters. It also contains a madrigal of Butler's: "The Queen bee's song". [1] The book sustained at least one further edition edited by Butler released in 1629. Another musical excursus of Butler's was an attempt to musically notate the "piping" noises of the queen bee. [2]
Urban beekeeping is the practice of keeping bee colonies (hives) in towns and cities. It is also referred to as hobby beekeeping or backyard beekeeping. Bees from city apiaries are said to be "healthier and more productive than their country cousins". [2] As pollinators, bees also provide environmental and economic benefits to cities. They are ...
The name Apimondia is a compound word made from two words; api, referring to honey bees, and mondia, referring to the world. [1] The federation issues a journal, Apiacta. The 2003 and 2004 issues are available online free of charge. [2] Since 1897, every other year Apimondia organizes beekeepers' congresses, hosted by different countries. [3]
The "China" section of the Manchu–Mongolian–Chinese Interlinear Trilingual Textbook published in the late Qing dynasty. According to research, the first people to put forward the idea of a 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization were Jesuit missionaries in the early Qing dynasty.
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:
Books IX–XIV: Chs. 45 and 68 are on historiography, both traditional and modern, with a section on historical reference works for all or most of Chinese history. Books X to XII present the sources chronologically starting with prehistory and on through all the major dynasties.