Ole Hertz 2002 (H300) This is an 80-page text prepared in Portuguese language for beekeepers in Cape Verde, the islands off the coast of West Africa. The text covers everything that a beginner beekeeper needs to know: the importance of bees for farming and how to protect them well the different types of bees, and the flowers they feed on details about the honeybee colony and how bees live and function how to keep bees in top-bar hives, frame hives and other types managing bees and making and using smokers harvesting and processing honey and wax and dealing with those few bee pests and predators found in Cape Verde.