General Beekeeping

Authors: Andrew Matheson & Murray Reid
No. of pages: 285
Hardcover

5th Edition The Definitive Guide - Completely Revised & Updated

For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand. It provides both amateur and commercial beekeepers with details on honey bee management throughout the year, advice on handling hive products and information about many other beekeeping subjects.

Authors: National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand
No. of pages: 40
Soft cover

This booklet is intended only as an introduction to hobbyist beekeeping.

Contains colour photographs and illustrations.

Author: Keith S. Delaplane
No. of pages: 166
Soft cover

In the tradition of C.P. Dadant's 1917 original

Author: Cindy Belknap
No. of pages: 288
Soft cover

Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply.

The Complete Guide to Beekeeping for Fun & Profit walks motivated potential beekeepers through the process of building and operating their beekeeping business from the ground up, ensuring it is both a fun hobby and a great way to make a little extra money on the side. To begin, you will learn what materials you need and what kinds of bees are best for honey or wax production. You will learn which safety equipment you need to effectively handle the bees and where to place your hives on your property so your bees will best thrive. You will learn the basics to understand what bees do and how they interact, including details about the queen bee, worker bees, drones, and foragers. You will learn how seasonal changes affect your colonies and how to manage your hives in the winter and fall.

This book also provides details about the different methods of honey gathering, including using smoke to access the hive. You will learn how to keep the necessary records, how to sell your honey, and how to competitively price your honey in the market. You will learn what is involved in opening a colony and how to manage pests effectively without endangering the bees or the honey. For anyone who has ever considered beekeeping as a hobby or source of side income, this book is for you.

Contains colour and black and white photographs

Author: Dewey M. Caron
No. of pages: 355
Hard cover

Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping Explains bee biology, what bees do and provides the tools which make it possible for an individual to successfully manage bee colonies. Accessible book for those lacking extensive background or knowledge of biology. However still relevant for the serious beekeeper.

Contains black and white photos

Author: Robert B. Gulliford
No. of pages: 520
Soft cover

Over 3100 entries on practical and scientific beekeeping terms.

An excellent reference and resource.

Authors: Keith S. Delaplane and Daniel F. Mayer
No. of pages: 344
Hard cover

This book is an accessible, practical and authoritative research-based guide to using bees for crop pollination.

The three main sections address the biology of pollination, methods of culturing and conserving bees for optimum pollination, and the pollination requirements and recommendations for individual crops. This last section includes 42 short chapters on different crops.

Essential reading for researchers, those studying entomology, crop science and ecology and those working in the field with bees.

Contains black and white photographs and illustrations.

Authors: Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile
No. of pages: 308
Soft cover
Fourth Edition

The essential guide for more than 35 years, step by step directions, 100+ illustrations of techniques and equipment, includes Colony Collapse Disorder, up-to-date bibliography and resource list and a new user-friendly design.

This handbook provides step-by-step directions accompanied by illustrations for setting up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony of bees and a generous supply of honey.
This book explains the various colony care options and techniques, noting advantages and disadvantages, so that beekeepers can make the best choices for their own hives. This fourth edition has been thoroughly redesigned, expanded, updated and revised to incorporate the latest information on Colony Collapse Disorder, green IPM methods, regional overwintering protocols, and procedures for handling bees and managing diseases and pests such as African honey bees and bee mites.
The book explains not only how but also why each step is part of the transformative process that results in the magnificent creation of honey. This essential guide is a beekeeper's most valuable resource.

Contains black and white illustrations.

Author: Roger Hoopingarner, Ph.D.
No. of pages: 424
Soft cover

An annotated update of L.L. Langstroth's beekeeping classic.

More than 150 years after L.L.Langstroth invented the movable-comb hive and brought beekeeping into the modern age, we can still learn from this historic book. The original book, preserved in its original text and illustrations, is updated and annotated by one of the foremost researchers in apiculture, Dr Roger Hoopingarner. This book keeps alive, for future generations, beekeeping techniques from the past and offers many lessons for modern beekeepers.

Contains black and white illustrations.

Author: Roger A. Morse
No. of pages: 207
Soft cover

This revised and expanded version will tell you all you need to know to start and maintain a healthy bee colony. If you're already an experienced beekeeper, it will lead you into new areas of the business, answer new questions, or help you refine your skills.

Many subjects are covered in detail, including:

• 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

Black and white photographs and technical drawings illustrate the text and appendices define technical terms.