The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition (eBook)

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

Kim Flottum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
256 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-0-7603-8583-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Healthy, Happy, and Productive Bees.Experience the timeless joy of beekeepingright in your backyard or on your urban rooftopwith this fully updated and accessible resource for beekeepers of all levels.More than just a how-to guide, The Backyard Beekeeper offers expert insights and practical advice on every aspect of caring for bees and harvesting their gifts. Learn how to:Set Up and Maintain Hives Start and care for thriving colonies.Choose the Ideal Location Ensure the safety of your bees and yourself.Practice Nontoxic Beekeeping Use natural, sustainable care methods.Manage Swarms Prevent and control swarming behavior.Work with Top Bar Hives Explore alternative hive options.Harvest Hive Products Collect honey, beeswax, and more.Identify and Treat Bee Health Issues Recognize problems early and apply effective solutions.What's New in the 5th Edition:Natural Beekeeping Methods Learn how to insulate hives for winter, mirroring the natural advantages of wild bee habitats.Updated Treatments for Varroa Mites Stay ahead in the fight against one of beekeeping's greatest challenges.Guidance on New Antibiotic Regulations Navigate the latest recommendations for managing American foulbrood.Modern Recordkeeping Tools Discover innovative ways to track hive health and productivity.This expanded edition also features a fresh, user-friendly design with larger, easy-to-read text, a clearer structure for quick reference, and dozens of new, vibrant photos that bring beekeeping to life.With trusted guidance fromKim Flottum, editor emeritus of Bee Culture magazine, you'll gain the confidence and know-how to cultivate healthy, productive bees and enjoy the sweet rewards of your own hive.Start your beekeeping journey todaynaturally, sustainably, and successfully.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 200 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 101 • Advice • African • Agriculture • All About • Amateur • American • apiary • apiculture • backyard • bait hive • Basics • Beauty • becoming a • Beehive • beekeepers • beekeeping book • beeswax • Bible • brood chamber • brood comb • build • candlemaking • cappings • cappings wax • chalkbrood • Christmas • climate change • Collapse • cooking • cooking with honey • cooks • Course • crafters • crafting • craft project • Cultivation • cut-comb • DIY • drones • Earth Day • Easter • Eco friendly • Education • equipment • Escape • Extreme • Farm • farming • Feeder • food security • foragers • for beginners • For Dummies • gardeners • Gardening • gear • Get Started • getting started with • Gift • guard bees • Guide • habitat destruction • Handbook • Harvesting • Health • History • Hobby • homemade honey • Homestead • homesteading • honey • honeybees • honeycomb • how to start taking care of a bee colony • Husbandry • Illustrated • Information • Instructions • Introduction • KEEP • keeping records • make your own • mating bees • Melting • Modern • NATURAL • nontoxic • nosema • novices • nucs • organic • packaged • Pesticides • Pest management • Pollen • pollinators • present • Propolis • Queen • raising bees • recordkeeping • Regulations • resource • Rooftop • royal jelly • Rules • Rural • Safety • self sufficiency • self-sufficiency skill • setting up • setting up for • Setup • Smoker • solar wax melters • Spring • Startup • Suburban • Supplies • sustainability • Sustainable living • swarm control • techniques • TIPS • tools of the trade • Top bar hives • Training • Treatments • Urban • Varroa • Wax Moth • what you need • with pictures • Workers
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-8583-1 / 0760385831
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-8583-8 / 9780760385838