The Practical Book of Beekeeping: A Complete How-To Manual on the Satisfying Art of Keeping Bees and Their Day to Day Care

by David Cramp

Overview

A how-to manual from handling bees, to the best garden plants, and harvesting the honey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754834342
Publisher:	Anness Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	12/05/2017
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	519,733
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Bees And Humankind 8

The origin of bees 10

Bees and the natural world 12

History of beekeeping 14

Understanding Bees 16

Bee species 18

Africanized bees 20

The honey bee colony 22

The structure of the colony 24

The life cycles of bees 26

Honey and honeydew 28

How bees find their food 30

Starting Beekeeping 32

Can you keep bees? 34

Sites for beehives 36

Dealing with bee stings 38

Essential beekeeping equipment 40

Traditional beehives 42

Other types of beehive 44

Hive components 46

How a beehive works 48

Making your own hive 50

Acquiring your bees 54

Transferring bees to a hive 56

Beekeeping Calendar 60

Spring 62

Spring swarm control 64

Summer 66

Moving bees in summer 68

Autumn 70

Winter 72

From winter to spring 74

Year planner 76

Harvesting Honey 78

Extraction equipment 80

Other harvesting equipment 82

Honey harvesting field equipment 84

Harvesting plan 86

Removing the honey 88

Extracting the honey 90

After the harvest 92

The uses of honey 94

Problems and Diseases 96

Queen problems 98

A new queen and laying workers 100

Aggressive colonies and robbing 102

Uniting colonies 104

Pesticide poisoning 106

Identifying and preventing disease 108

Wax moth and American Foul Brood 110

Other brood diseases 112

Adult bee diseases 114

Bee mites 116

Other bee pests 118

The Bee Garden 120

Garden plants for bees 122

Spring plants 124

Early summer plants 126

Autumn plants 128

Plants and honey flavours 130

Taking Beekeeping Further 132

Beekeeping industries 134

Pollen 136

Propolis 138

Royal jelly 140

Beeswax 142

Venom 144

Shows and competitions 146

Queen rearing 148

Queen breeding 150

Science and bee research 152

Glossary 154

Further reading and acknowledgements 156

Index 158