Beekeeping

Contents: Preface. I. Pollination and honey bees: 1. Pollination. 2. Pollination and honeybee. II. Forage and foraging honeybee and insecticides: 3. Forage and foraging. III. Honeys and rubber tree unifloral honeys chemical composition analysis nutritional value: 4. Honeybee and insecticides. 5. Honey and rubber tree. 6. Honey. 7. Nutritional value of bee honey. IV. Honey products: 8. Bee venom. 9. Bee wax and others. 10. Honey production in wafer form. Glossary. Appendices. Index. 

"Honey appeared much earlier than man. Accordingly bees have long association with him right from the time human race came into existence. With the passage of time, honey has emerged from the position of a sweetener of the aboriginal man to that of a present day industrial product. 

Honey bees as pollinators of agricultural crops and orchards fruits were known but never understood on a rational and scientific basis. Similarly many myths associated with its nutritional excellence or therapeutics.

Several bye-products like beeswax, royal jelly, bee venom have been finding use in modern time.

Some specific types of honey like rubber honey, unifloral honeys, and other innovation like invert sugar, honey dew and Carvia callosa have also reached the commercial markets. It is imperative to know about them, their identification and ascertainment of their purity and safety." (jacket)