The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition (eBook)

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden – Natural beekeeping techniques – New Varroa mite and American foulbrood treatments – Introduction to technologies for recordkeeping and maintenance

Kim Flottum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
256 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-0-7603-8583-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Enjoy the time-honored tradition of beekeeping in your own backyard or urban rooftop with this accessible resource for beekeepers of all skill levels, now in its 5th edition. More than a guide to beekeeping, The Backyard Beekeeper featuresexpert advice for: Setting up and caring for your own colonies Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees Swarm control Using top bar hives Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey Bee problems and treatments New in this edition: Natural beekeeping techniques like insulating hives for the winter to mimic the advantages of bee homes in the wild Important newtreatments for and updated info on the battle withVarroamites How to dealwith the new antibiotic recommendations for American foulbrood Introduction to new recordkeeping technology to consider In addition to content updates to reflect the most recent research and technology in beekeeping, the book features a new design with larger, easier-to-read text, many new photos, and a more easily navigable structure. With this complete reference and theexpert advice ofBee Cultureeditor emeritus Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 200 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 101 • Advice • African • Agriculture • All About • Amateur • American • apiary • apiculture • bait hive • Basics • Beauty • becoming a • Beehive • beekeeping book • beeswax • Bible • brood chamber • brood comb • build • candlemaking • cappings • cappings wax • chalkbrood • Collapse • cooking • cooking with honey • cooks • Course • crafters • crafting • Cultivation • cut-comb • drones • Earth Day • Easter • Education • equipment • Escape • Extreme • Farm • farming • Feeder • foragers • for beginners • For Dummies • gardeners • Gardening • gear • Get Started • getting started with • guard bees • Guide • Handbook • Harvesting • Health • History • Hobby • homemade honey • Homestead • honey • honeybees • honeycomb • how to start taking care of a bee colony • Husbandry • Illustrated • Information • Instructions • Introduction • KEEP • keeping records • make your own • mating bees • Melting • Modern • NATURAL • nontoxic • nosema • novices • nucs • packaged • Pesticides • Pest management • Pollen • pollinators • Propolis • Queen • raising bees • recordkeeping • Regulations • resource • Rooftop • royal jelly • Rules • Rural • Safety • self-sufficiency skill • setting up • setting up for • Setup • Smoker • solar wax melters • Spring • Startup • Suburban • Supplies • sustainability • Sustainable living • swarm control • techniques • TIPS • tools of the trade • Top bar hives • Training • Treatments • Urban • Varroa • Wax Moth • what you need • with pictures • Workers
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-8583-1 / 0760385831
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-8583-8 / 9780760385838