Buy it now and receive it between Tuesday, 20 October and Thursday, 22 October with Ontime
It is the manual you buy once and consult for twenty years. Not the one you read in a sitting.
«Apicultura. Conocimiento de la abeja. Manejo de la colmena», by Pierre Jean-Prost, revised and expanded by Yves Le Conte. Fourth Spanish edition, 791 illustrated pages. The text is in Spanish.
01 · WHAT IS INSIDE
The route runs from the biology of the bee — anatomy, castes, behaviour — through to the operation: production, migratory beekeeping, queen rearing and selection, swarming, feeding and how to organise an apiary.
It is a library book: you go in through the index looking for one thing and come out with a reasoned answer rather than a recipe.
02 · WHOSE IT IS
The original is by Pierre Jean-Prost, one of the classics of the French school. The revision is by Yves Le Conte, a researcher in bee biology and health, who updates what has changed most: pathology, new parasites and resistance.
03 · WHO IT IS FOR
It is for someone already a few seasons in who wants to understand why things happen: why two identical-looking hives give different crops.
Anyone after an illustrated first-steps guide with photos and numbered steps will find this book dense. You come here to study.
04 · BEFORE YOU BUY
It is a reference manual in Spanish, not a course:
| ✓ FITS | Anyone wanting grounding: biology, pathology and reasoned management. |
| ✕ DOESN'T FIT | Anyone after a quick illustrated beginner's guide — or who does not read Spanish. |
| Title | Apicultura. Conocimiento de la abeja. Manejo de la colmena |
|---|---|
| Author | Pierre Jean-Prost |
| Revision and expansion | Yves Le Conte |
| Edition | 4th Spanish edition, revised and expanded |
| Pages | 791, illustrated |
| Language | Spanish |
| Reference | LBC7731 |
Specific References

Write your question
check_circle
check_circle