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The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition
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
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Enjoy the time-honoured 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 features expert advice for: Setting up and caring for...
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The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition
The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition is your complete honeybee resource, loaded with essential information for beginning and maintaining healthy hives.
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Enjoy the time-honoured 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 features expert 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 new treatments for and updated info on the battle with Varroa mites
- Introduction to new recordkeeping technology to consider
In addition to content updates that 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 the expert advice of Bee Culture editor emeritus Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780760385821
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 February 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Quarry Books
Illustration: color photos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 203.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 907g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Kim Flottum brings a rich background of plant science, honeybee research, and basic farming to his 30 years as the editor of Bee Culture magazine, where his main occupation has been finding the answers to the multitude of questions that beginning, intermediate, and even advanced and experienced beekeepers bring to the table. He teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping courses, travels extensively to educate and lecture, and contributes to a variety of other publications on the basics of honey bees and beekeeping biology, the business of bees and pollination, producing and using varietal honeys, and a host of other subjects.
He is the author of The Backyard Beekeeper, First Time Beekeeping, In Business with Bees, and Common Sense Natural Beekeeping. His books, magazine articles, interviews, and blogs are widely read for both their fundamental and advanced contribution to beekeeping knowledge. He is beekeeping's leading advocate for fundamental honey bee safety, including insuring excellent honey bee health, providing extraordinary forage, and minimizing the use of agricultural pesticides.
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