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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 |
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