P. Segeren
© Agromisa Foundation, Wageningen, 2004.
You can keep bees as an interesting hobby, or as a main or an extra source of income. This booklet mainly provides information on how to work with honey-bees that nest in cavities. In most of the world regions this will be the European bee Apis mellifera, but in large parts of (sub)tropical Asia the quite similar species A.cerana is mainly used. Although the composition of a honey-bee colony is basically the same
all over the world, the management of bees must be adapted to the species and race, the climate and the vegetation.