Book Description
A classic text from one of the world's experts on bees. This comprehensive guide will give beginners all they need to start and maintain a healthy bee colony, while experienced beekeepers will find advice on expanding into new areas of the business and how to refine their skills. Subjects covered include: • Buying a colony of bees • Managing bees throughout the seasons • Selecting equipment and a good apiary site • Preventing swarming • Extracting, processing, and selling honey • Controlling pests, predators, and diseases • Rearing queen honey bees Photographs and technical drawings illustrate the text, and appendixes define technical terms, list sources of supplies, and tell you where to go to find more information. 49 black and white photographs, 3 illustrations, index. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Perfect guide for beginner beekeeper
This provides details on how to start and maintiain a healthy colony. Includes buying, managing, choosing equipment, controlling pests, and all aspects of making honey. A good easy-to-understand guide for the beginner.

The New Incomplete Guide to Beekeeping
I have about 17 books on beekeeping related topics and I found this one to be the most lack luster of them all.Like the other reviewer said it touches briefly on all aspects of beekeeping but does not go into any real depth.I found its section on How To Get Started On Beekeeping pathetic. On installing a package of bees it offers six black and white photographs and a few lines of text underneath each picture to describe what is going on.That?s it!!.It does not mention anything about what to feed them once they are installed, your first inspection and what to look for, or a description of the equipment you will need to start your first hive. I think most beginners are very concerned about starting the process correctly and more attention should have been placed on the first few weeks of establishing a hive. Dr. Morse did not even go into the topic of establishing a colony with a nuc.Dr. Morse is a very well known and respected professor at Cornell University who I might call one of the founding fathers of modern beekeeping.Unfortunately, he wrote a crappy book that offers little to the new beekeeper.Two books I would recommend are John Vivian's "Keeping Bees".Although it is slightly dated when it comes to managing mites the rest of the book is invaluable as a source of information.Richard Bonney's two books on beekeeping are also very good.

incomplete guide to beekeeping
this is a good book for someone interested in beekeeping, but offers little to someone who is actually getting started in beekeeping.It contains an introduction to nearly every important topic in beekeeping, butis not in depth enough to help anyone who has bees and has questions aboutthem. ... Read more

Book Description
Beekeeping is enjoyable and satisfying, whether you're a professional or a novice.With a bit of ingenuity and a little knowledge, anyone can successfully raise honey bees.Learn how to set up and maintain your own honey bee colony from Keith Delaplane, Ph.D., one of the nation's foremost entomologists as he guides you through each step, from buying tools and selecting healthy bees, to havesting and selling honey. ... Read more

Book Description
Methods used by Brother Adam, creator of the Buckfast Bee strain to manage bee colonies in Devon, England. Emphasis on general observati ... Read more

Product Description
New and improved 2008 Beekeeping Classes CD Beekeeping 101, 201, and 301. The Cd includes: Beekeeping classes 101 for Beginning Beekeepers, 201 for Intermediate Beekeepers, and 301 for Advanced Beekeepers. And much more. It is three books on one cd covering a full range of beekeeping topics. Topics range from How do I keep bees? to How do I make money with bees? It contains three short movies, a series of power point presentations ideal for bee meetings or review of subject material covered in the beekeeping lessons, two digitized bee books that have had an important impact on beekeeping in the past: Better Queens by Jay Smith and Forty Years Among the Bees by Dr. C.C. Miller.The cd menu includes a search of approximately 200 beekeeping topics including: queen rearing, honey production, disease identification, moving bees, small and large scale extracting, finding queens etc. Included on the menu is a dictionary of beekeeping terms and a way to print the lessons to hard copy if your learning style is enhanced by reading the printed word. The New and Improved 2008 Beekeeping 101, 201, and 301 has sold thousands of copies in earlier editions. The new edition is enhanced with many new photographs, the sights and sounds of a swarm leaving the hive and being captured, and you progress at your own pace. It covers many subjects not covered in other bee books.The author, Dana Stahlman, is a fourth generation beekeeper, owner of Stahlman Apiaries, retired commercial beekeeper, Master Beekeeper certified through the Eastern Apicultural Society, past officer of the Ohio State Beekeepers Association, Ohio beekeeper of the year for 1997, author of A Critical Edition of Charles Butlers The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, published articles in Bee Culture Magazine and The Speedy Bee, and speaker at various beekeeping functions.This CD-Rom disk is designed to operate on a PC computer. It contains no executable or command to harm your computer. ... Read more