Index to David Heaf's Warré beekeeping pages
My honey
Warré beekeeping English web portal: http://warre.biobees.com/index.html
Warré beekeeping e-Group: https://groups.google.com/g/warrebeekeeping


The Bee-friendly Beekeeper
In recent years, beekeepers on several continents have been suffering heavy losses of colonies. If we systematically investigate factors causing the losses, we can justifiably ask whether the way in which honey bees are kept is part of the problem. Could hive design, frames, foundation, intrusion, artificial queen breeding, drone suppression, queen excluders, artificial feeding, medication, transhumance and overstocking - all elements of modern beekeeping - be reducing the vitality of bees?
This book examines the issues surrounding these practices, drawing where possible on the primary literature in bee biology and apiculture, in order to identify an approach to keeping bees that is more bee-appropriate, more apicentric. It also analyses the fundamental attitudes underlying the different ways in which we choose to keep bees.
Honeycomb is now known to be much more than just the skeleton of the bee colony superorganism. A case is presented for making natural comb the centre of a way of beekeeping that better respects the nature of the honey bee by allowing its species-specific behaviours to be expressed. This is apicentric beekeeping.
Among the hives based on relatively natural comb, the author presents the top-bar hive of Émile Warré as a practical and economical alternative to frame hives and describes the bee-friendly features of its operation. The book includes construction plans and modern tips for its management. Contents & Preface
published by Northern Bee Books, 14 September 2010
ISBN: 978-1-904846-60-4
paperback, 170 x 244 mm, 160 pages
80 colour illustrations and 16 line drawings
fully annotated with supporting 117-reference bibliography including up-to-date apiological and apicultural primary literature
thoroughly indexed
suitable for beginners who already have a basic knowledge of the life of the honey bee, as well as for beekeepers with experience who want to discover a more bee-friendly way, either with their existing hives or with the Warré hive
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Amendments and addendum of second impression (2011)
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French version
Une ruche respectueuse des abeilles: la ruche Warré


Commentaires
Une traduction de The Bee-friendly Beekeeper, mis à jour. Traduction: Muriel Levet
https://www.terran.fr/ruche-warre-heaf-livre-editions-terran.html
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Swedish version
Den bivänlige biodlaren : ett hållbart förhållningssätt


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Natural Beekeeping with the Warré Hive -- A Manual
Keeping bees in a more natural way is growing in popularity throughout the world. Older hive designs are being reappraised, and methods that have been used for over a century are being questioned.
The People's Hive of Abbé Émile Warré (1867-1951) is one of the older designs that beekeepers find particularly attractive. Several commercial honey producers have already adapted it to fit their needs. Warré's one-size box with top-bars, natural comb and insulating quilt, create ideal conditions for colony vitality and survival, as well as reducing consumption of honey stores in winter. The hive is now used worldwide in climates ranging from the tropics to the taïga.
This inspiring, practical, clearly laid out book contains everything you need to know in order to build and run a Warré hive. Amongst others, topics include tools, siting, obtaining and hiving bees, monitoring, feeding, wintering, enlarging the hive, harvesting and extracting honey with simple kitchen equipment. An ideal book for the aspiring natural beekeeper. Preface & Contents
published by Northern Bee Books, April 2013
ISBN: 978-1-908904-38-6
paperback, 170 x 244 mm, 104 pages
50 B&W illustrations and 17 line drawings
thoroughly indexed
suitable for beginners who already have a basic knowledge of the life of the honey bee, as well as for beekeepers with experience who want to start Warré beekeeping
£12.00 (GB pounds) + carriage from Northern Bee Books
Errata in initial print runs                 Reviews
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Dutch version


Natuurimkeren met de Warré-kast. Een handleiding
Nederlandse vertaling Tom Bruwier, 2019
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Italian version (traduzione italiano)


L'apicoltura naturale con l'arnia Warré -- un manuale
traduzione dall’inglese: Luca Vitali
formato: 15 x 21 cm, pp. 208, con tavole, disegni e foto b/n
collana: Apilogia 07
ISBN 9788898-186136
prezzo: 20 euro
USCITA: marzo 2016
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Swedish (Svenska) version


Naturlig Biodling med Warré Kupan
Översättare: Stefan Breitholtz
Språk: Svenska
Antal sidor: 116
Utg.datum: 2013-11-16
Förlag: Books on Demand
Komponenter: Paperback
ISBN: 9789174633801
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Treatment-Free Beekeeping

Since varroa arrived in Europe and America in the 1980’s, most beekeepers have found it necessary to treat their colonies with chemicals in order to avoid heavy colony losses. But a minority of beekeepers have managed to care for their colonies without the use of chemicals and have done so with not just tolerable colony losses, but with losses that are sometimes equal to or smaller than the losses of those beekeepers who treat with chemicals. With the help of thirty examples of treatment-free beekeepers in Europe and America, including famous names in varroa-resistant bee breeding, this book documents the encouraging success and growing popularity of beekeeping without chemicals, and details the bee husbandries of the beekeepers presented.

Contents

Introduction
1. Uses of chemicals and why we stop using
    them
2. My bee husbandry and some statistics
3. Darwinian beekeeping
4. Ethics, laws and social implications of
    treatment-free beekeeping
5. The Gwynedd experience
6. Varroa treatment-free projects in Europe and
    America
    Austria, Canada, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy,
     Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom,
     USA
7. Biotechnical treatments against varroa –
    a half-way house to treatment-free
     Mesh floors (screened bottom boards), Mite trapping – caging
     the queen on comb, Mite trapping – removing drone brood,
     Heat treatment, Small-cell comb, Pseudoscorpions, Feeding
8. Minimising colony losses in treatment-free
    beekeeping with particular reference to
    varroa
      Bee race, Bee genetics, Hive type, Colony management,
      Colony nutrition
Useful links
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index

Corrections & Addendum

Review by Paul Honigman
Published by Northern Bee Books, January 2021
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-913811-00-6
paperback, 170 x 244 mm, 120 pages
34 colour illustrations
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Swedish version
Behandlings-Fri Biodling
Translated by Stefan Breitholtz 


 
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Biodling utan Kemikalier (alternative title)


 


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Web pages on beekeeping with the Warré hive
Details of and how to order Beekeeping for All by Abbé Émile Warré
Northern Bee Books online sales page for Beekeeping for All
English web portal for Warré beekeeping at biobees.com
David Heaf's Warré experiment
Reply to Glyn Davies Why I worry about the Warré (Devon BKA journal, August 2010)
Waxing Warré top-bars
Preparing top-bar cover cloths
Bait hives
Warré-type bait hive
Funnel for shook swarming bees into a Warré hive box
National hive to Warré hive adapter for artificial swarms from National hives
Hiving a swarm from a bait hive into a Warré
Taranov swarming a National hive into a Warré hive
Bee vacuum for use with Warré box
Diary of a swarm caught in a bait hive and housed in a Warré hive at Gwenynfa 'D'
Warré comb photos
Bearding at Warré hive entrances
Changing a Warré hive floor with a Gatineau lift
Nadiring Warré hives, April 2010
8-way clearer board
Extracting honey
Pressing honeycomb
Hive weighing device
National hive Ashforth feeder on a Warré hive
Putting candy on a Warré hive
Renewing a box full of brood and bees
Solar extractor
Wax extraction by boiling
Candlemaking
Warré hive scale and data logger construction   Data
 
Videos
Brief presentation on how I make my Warré hive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVn-NZTfus
(N.B. Mention of the top-bar cloth was inadvertently omitted.)
Interview by Felix Remter for a film on treatment free beekeeping: https://vimeo.com/157019200?ref=fb-share&1
Interview by Jan-Michael Schütt on treatment free beekeeping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCY6EZkgxE
 
Articles
The Essence of Sustainable Beekeeping
Keynote address to Britain's first Natural Beekeeping Conference, 2011 
Towards Sustainable Beekeeping
A compilation of a 4-part article serialised in The Beekeepers Quarterly 2008 with an introduction on beekeeping ethics.
(Part of this article has been translated into French)
Sustainable & Bee-friendly Beekeeping -- Australian Bee Journal 89(2), Feb 2008
Sustainable Bee-Friendly Beekeeping -- New View  -- adapted from 2-part article in Permaculture Magazine (2009)
Do Small Cells Help Bees Cope With Varroa? -- The Beekeepers' Quarterly, 104, June 2011, 39-45.
Letter to the editor of the American Bee Journal Sep 2011 -- responding to an article on the Warré hive by Jerry Hayes
Honey from brood comb is dirty -- a refutation
Nestduftwärmebindung: a useful hypothesis or just 'complete nonsense'? -- The Welsh Beekeeper 206, Winter 2019
Gwynedd winter losses summary -- BBKA News, August 2015
Statistical analysis of Gwynedd winter losses by Dorian Pritchard, BBKA News, December 2015
Bee guided pharmacognosy and the Warré hive -- BBKA News July 2016
Survey of hive winter weight loss rates in UK, USA & Japan 2017
Dealing with Varroa -- Natural selection or artificial selection? -- Natural Bee Husbandry August 2017 German version
The book scorpion, a welcome guest in bee colonies Beier (1951) Translation from the original German
Does the Varroa resistance trait follow the queen when she is used to re-queen another colony without the trait? A review.
 
Various Warré hives and their contents
Apiary visits April 2008 & 2009
Warré hives at Kinlet apiary (2008)
Warré and National hives at main apiary (May 2008)
Spring visit to Warré hives 2009
Warré colony die-outs 2009
Remodelling comb in box 2 of a Warré hive
Warré hive toppled by wind 2016
 
Swarms and ferals
Llanystumdwy church feral colony
Capel Uchaf Council house chimney (disused)
Bee removals
Extreme beekeeping
 
Miscellaneous
Warré hive humidity studies
Warré hive thermology studies
Comparison of thermal performances of Warré and National hives
Modified Warré hive temperature monitoring (6 sensors)
Modified Lazutin hive temperature monitoring (6 sensors)
Warré hive thermology
Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping by Dean Stiglitz & Laurie Herboldsheimer (PDF)
Natural comb -- natural variability of comb spacing according to position in the nest
Cell size -- article by Eric Zeissloff on cell size measurements in natural comb in the last 300 years
                -- article by David Heaf on cell size measurements in natural comb in the last 340 years
                -- recent cell size measurements on feral and Warré comb
Forage
Bees drinking through a piece of concrete sitting in a puddle of water
The Wild Hive of Claude Bralet     David Heaf's 'wild hive'     John Haverson's 'wild hive'
Modified Lazutin hive    Modified Einraumbeute  David Junker's bentwood & reeds trough hive
Miscellaneous beekeeping photos and images
Scientific papers bibliography, mostly with abstracts, relating to near-natural beekeeping
Review notes on publications on the subject of hive insulation