Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: California Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1960
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Honeybees of Africa

Honeybees of Africa
Author: H. Randall Hepburn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662036045

A comprehensive review of the honeybees of Africa on a subspecies as well as by country basis. Includes an updated multivariate analysis of the subspecies based on the merger of the Ruttner database (Oberursel) and that of Hepburn & Radloff (Grahamstown) for nearly 20,000 bees. Special emphasis is placed on natural zones of hybridisation and introgression of different populations; seasonal cycles of development in different ecological-climatological zones of the continent; swarming, migration and absconding; and an analysis of the bee flora of the continent. The text is supplemented by tables containing quantitative data on all aspects of honeybee biology, and by continental and regional maps.