Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!
  • Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!
  • Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!
  • Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!
ISBN: 1465454535
EAN13: 9781465454539
Language: English
Release Date: Mar 14, 2017
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.63" H x 9.13" L x 7.64" W
Weight: 1.19 lbs.
Format: Paperback
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Book Overview


Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.

Featuring more than 120 color photos, Beginning Beekeeping will teach any beginner how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant colonies. You'll learn how to set up a colony and attract bees, how to incorporate best practices and techniques for keeping colonies strong, and how to troubleshoot and treat a broad range of common hive issues. Along the way, you'll learn how to harvest your honey and keep your bees healthy and happy.

Included in Beginning Beekeeping:

- Practical information on how a hive works, how and where to set up hives for maximum success, buying and installing bees, feeding bees, and more, with recommendations for both urban and rural settings
- Effective treatment recommendations for dealing with common hive pests and diseases including mites, foulbrood, and colony collapse disorder (CD), with recommendations for both conventional and organic treatments
- Tips for dealing with common hive issues such as swarming, robbing, absconding, as well as guidance for managing aggressive hives and tips for keeping a queenright colony
- Instructions for enjoying rich, bountiful honey harvests, and instructions for processing and storing the honey and wax Read More chevron_right

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5
   Great info and photos
This book has a number of photographs and simplified instructions. Appreciated the bits of information. If you are a photographic learner and love to have a wealth of visuals, this book is fantastic for that.
 
Recommended to buy: Yes
5
   Another Good Beekeeper book
I wouldn't use this as a single source of starting up in beekeeping, but one of many sources. The book is well written with many illustrations and photos of what you are getting into with Honeybee.
 
Recommended to buy: Yes
5
   Perfect book for beginners
This book has been loved! I read the whole thing over the course of the round trip flight. I learned a ton and was prepared for the bees I got just!
 
Recommended to buy: Yes
5
   If this is your very first beekeeping manual don't look any farther.
For all new beekeepers, it is the best introduction book I have seen so far. Lots of great information is presented in very “user-friendly ” form. If this is your very first book of beekeeping, you do not have to look further.
 
Recommended to buy: Yes
5
   I bought a couple of books and this one really gives a good amount of information and helped me really get my ...
Really interesting to read with lots of pictures and examples. I bought a few books and this one really gives a good amount of information and helped me get my bees started.
 
Recommended to buy: Yes
5
   Great book for the new beekeeper or just wanting information on beekeeping.
Book is great! Everyone who gets into beekeeping should have this book just. Great information to get you started on the right foot.
 
Recommended to buy: Yes
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