Keeping Healthy Honey Bees

ISBN-10
1904846548
ISBN-13
9781904846543
Category
Bee culture
Pages
194
Language
English
Published
2010-07
Authors
David Aston, Sally Bucknall

Description

Honeybees are under threat worldwide because of virulent viruses against which they have no natural defences. Nearly all colonies in the wild have died out and without beekeepers to care for them, honeybees could disappear in a few years.

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