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    Beekeeping: A Practical Guide

    Beekeeping: A Practical Guide

    by Richard E. Bonney


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      ISBN-13: 9781603421737
    • Publisher: Storey Books
    • Publication date: 09/24/2012
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 192
    • File size: 3 MB

    Veteran beekeeper Richard E. Bonney, author of Hive Management, Beekeeping, and co-author of Storeys Guide to Keeping Honey Bees, was the longtime owner of Charlemont Apiaries in Charlemont, Massachusetts. 

    Table of Contents

    INTRODUCTION

    1. BEFORE WE START

    The Beekeeper's Commitment

    Dimensions of Beekeeping

    Stings

    Legal Considerations

    History of Beekeeping

    How to Get Started

    2. THE BEES

    What Is a Honey Bee?

    Occupants of the Hive

    Development

    Activities and Behavior

    Life of a Worker Bee

    Cycle of the Year

    Colony Reproduction: Swarming

    Nutrition and Feeding

    Communications

    3. GETTING STARTED

    Hive Location

    Equipment and Supplies

    Acquiring Bees

    Working with Bees

    Installing Bees

    Initial Management

    4. ONGOING MANAGEMENT

    The First Summer

    Fall Management

    The Coming Year

    5. REMOVING THE CROP

    Methods for Clearing Bees and Removing Supers

    Extracting and Handling Honey

    Comb Honey

    Other Hive Products

    6. DISEASES, PESTS, AND PREDATORS

    Diseases of Honey Bees

    Parasitic Mites

    Nonproblem Creatures for Honey Bees

    Problem Creatures for Honey Bees

    The Africanized Bee

    Pesticides

    APPENDICES

    Appendix A: Publications about Beekeeping

    Appendix B: Sources

    Appendix C: Glossary

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    Keep your own bees and enjoy delicious golden honey from your own backyard. With his respect and admiration for bees evident on every page, Richard E. Bonney describes how to acquire bees, manage a hive, prevent and treat diseases, and extract a crop of honey. Enthusiastic beekeepers of every stripe and experience level will benefit from Bonney’s astonishing knowledge of the craft — from beekeeping history and honeybee biology to the complex social structure of the hive.

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