Bumblebee Keeper

<p>Bumblebee keeping is a unique enterprise. Forget what you know of (honey) beekeeping: this is a different game and Nelson Pomeroy lays it bare.</p><p><br></p><p>In a candid account of his career as a student scientist businessman and teacher he details most aspects of working with bumblebees: outdoor nesting sites laboratory observation hives crop pollination and commercial-scale rearing. His innovations range from specialist concrete to electric heating systems mass-producible colony starting containers and bumblebee feeding systems. </p><p><br></p><p>Bumblebee colonies are small with a peak of up to a few hundred bees. He grapples with this from various angles-from measuring colony productivity and foraging strength to measuring pollination stocking rates.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Bumblebee Keeper</em> blends a personal narrative with practical information. It will interest readers from pollination management through bee biologists to those with an interest in agro-technologies. It concludes with a selection of bumblebee conservation issues and challenges decision-makers on the best approach to sustainability of pollination for food security.</p>