The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home

This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed, installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation hive to a market, fair, or school. Most important, it describes and illustrates the many ways you can use your observation hive to learn more about honey bees and how to care for them.

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The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home

This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed, installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation hive to a market, fair, or school. Most important, it describes and illustrates the many ways you can use your observation hive to learn more about honey bees and how to care for them.

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The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home

The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home

The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home

The Observation Hive Handbook: Studying Honey Bees at Home

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Overview

This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed, installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation hive to a market, fair, or school. Most important, it describes and illustrates the many ways you can use your observation hive to learn more about honey bees and how to care for them.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501707261
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 09/15/2017
Pages: 110
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Frank Linton is an EAS-certified Master Beekeeper who has kept an observation hive in his house since 2005. Retired from his career as an artificial intelligence engineer, he lives in Maryland.

Clarence Collison is Professor of Entomology and Head of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University. He is the author of What Do You Know?

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Clarence H. Collison
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Benefits of Observing Honey Bees at Home
2. Preparing for and Selecting an Observation Hive
3. Installing Your Observation Hive
4. Working an Observation Hive
5. Maintaining Your Observation Hive
6. Observation Hives in Public Spaces
7. Bee Photography and Your Observation Hive
8. Things to Try with Your Observation Hive
A Closing Word
Appendix: Selection and Installation Checklist
Bibliography
Index

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