The Backyard Beekeeper, 4th Edition (eBook)

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden

Kim Flottum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
240 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-1-63159-577-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels. More than a guide to beekeeping, this handbook features expert advice for:Setting up and caring for your own coloniesSelecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yoursThe most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your beesSwarm controlUsing top bar hivesHarvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and usinghoneyBee problems and treatmentsWhats New?Information for urban bees and beekeepersUsing your smoker the right wayBetter pest managementProviding consistent and abundant good foodKeeping your hives healthyWith thiscomplete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 200 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 101 • Advice • African • Agriculture • All About • all about beekeeping • Amateur • amateur beekeeping • American • american honeybee • apiary • apiculture • aspiring beekeeper • backyard beekeeping • bait hive • Basics • Beauty • becoming a • becoming a beekeeper • bee colony • bee farm • Beehive • bee husbandry • beekeeper rules • Beekeeping • beekeeping 101 • beekeeping advice • beekeeping basics • beekeeping book • beekeeping for dummies • beekeeping history • beekeeping information • beekeeping instructions • beekeeping introduction • beekeeping resource • beekeeping safety • beekeeping setup • beekeeping supplies • beekeeping techniques • beekeeping tips • beekeeping training • bees • beeswax • Beginner • beginner beekeeping • Beginner's Guide • Bible • brood chamber • brood comb • build • candlemaking • cappings • cappings wax • chalkbrood • Christmas • Collapse • colony collapse • cooking • cooking with honey • cooks • Course • crafters • crafting • Cultivation • cut-comb • cut-comb honey • drones • Earth Day • Education • equipment • Escape • Extreme • extreme beekeeping • Farm • farming • Feeder • foragers • for beginners • For Dummies • gardeners • Gardening • gear • Get Started • getting started with • getting started with beekeeping • Gift • guard bees • Handbook • Harvesting • Health • History • Hobby • hobby beekeeper • Holiday • homemade honey • Homestead • honey • honeybees • honeycomb • how to keep • how to keep bees • how to start taking care of a bee colony • Husbandry • Illustrated • Information • Instructions • Introduction • KEEP • Keeping • keeping records • Log • make your own • mating bees • Melting • melting beeswax • Modern • NATURAL • nontoxic • nosema • novices • nucs • packaged • packaged bees • Pesticides • Pest management • Pollen • pollinators • present • Propolis • Queen • raising bees • recordkeeping • Regulations • resource • Rooftop • rooftop beekeeping • royal jelly • Rules • Rural • rural beekeeping • Safety • self-sufficiency skill • setting up • setting up for • setting up for beekeeping • Setup • Smoker • solar wax melters • Startup • Suburban • Suit • Supplies • sustainability • Sustainable living • swarm control • taking care of a bee colony • techniques • TIPS • tools of the trade • Top bar hives • Training • Treatments • Urban • Urban Beekeeping • Varroa • Wax Moth • what you need • what you need beekeeping • with pictures • Workers
• ISBN-10: 1-63159-577-6 / 1631595776
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63159-577-6 / 9781631595776