Beekeeping: A Practical Guide - Softcover

E. Bonney, Richard

 
9780882668611: Beekeeping: A Practical Guide

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

Whether you're a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to:

-- Acquire bees

-- Install a colony

-- Manage a hive

-- Take a crop of honey

-- Prevent and treat Varroa and tracheal mites

-- Learn about Africanized bees

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