Guide to Bees & Honey: The World's Best Selling Guide to Beekeeping

by TedHooper (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $17.58

  This is the ideal guide for anyone wanting to start beekeeping and a revered reference book for experienced beekeepers. It includes information on all you need to know, including how to avoid swarms, plan requeening, or provide the colony with winter stores. It features key information on Varroa. It is copiously illustrated throughout. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of Guide to Bees and Honey also presents expert advice for readers who plan to maintain a few hives for personal recreational use, as well as those who want to expand an existing colony into a commercial venture.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.35

  Intended for both the beginner and the experienced beekeeper, this manual anticipates the questions likely to be asked by both. There is advice for those planning to maintain a few hives for personal use, and those expanding into a commercial venture. This edition includes a section on the Varroa mite; the disease it spreads has proved fatal to many beekeeper's hives, and provided here are ways to treat and combat it.