The Bras and The Bees by FA Notley Hornets A system of queen rearing

A system of queen rearing developed by the author in the commercial field of beekeeping whilst in New Zealand but with a practical application for all beekeepers

This quickly developed from being an occasional lesson into an extra curricula bee club

which forms the substance of this book

and navigate together—as a swirling cloud of bees—to their new home

People all over the world are studying their fate and the threats posed to them by human activity and biodiversity loss

The Bras and The Bees by FA Notley Hornets A system of queen rearingThis is a biography of particular interest to those in the bee keeping world. It tells the story of Brian Sherriff, a man born in the late 1920s, who inherited his fathers corset factory and went on to run a bra factory in Cornwall, but lost everything in the recession of the 1970s. Using boning, net and fabric intended for bras, Brian and his wife Pat created an entirely new kind of beekeeping hood and veil literally from the bones of the old