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A beekeeper's year : setting up and managing backyard hives / Janet Luke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Birkenhead : New Holland, 2017Description: 215 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869664565
Other title:
  • Beekeeper's year : a practical guide to caring for bees and beehives
Subject(s): Summary: Keeping bees is becoming increasingly popular around the world as concern grows that bees and their environments are threatened by global warming and climate change. For beginners, this guide follows three beekeepers using different hives through their first season. Featuring three different popular beehive designs: Top Bar, Warre and Flow, Janet Luke interviews the keepers and carries out inspections of their hives, looking at where to locate beehives, how to introduce the bees, comb management, varroa control, disease inspections, feeding bees, requeening, harvesting honey and preparing hives for the winter months.
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Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 638.1 LUK 1 Checked out 05/04/2024 T00600494
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 638.1 LUK 1 Checked out 07/04/2024 T00600489
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 638.1 LUK 2 Available T00627925
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Beekeeper's Year follows the progress of three novice beekeepers with three different types of hive, as they navigate their way through their first year of beekeeping. Follow their journey as they set up and manage their Top Bar, Warré and Flow hives - from obtaining bees to inspecting their hives, extracting honey and closing down the hive for the winter.

A Beekeeper's Year is an ideal introduction to backyard beekeeping, with everything you need to know about what equipment is required, managing your hives, keeping your bees healthy and pest and disease control. It is packed with stunning yet practical photographs to help you understand these fascinating creatures that are essential to the production of our food.

Includes bibliographical references (page 215).

Keeping bees is becoming increasingly popular around the world as concern grows that bees and their environments are threatened by global warming and climate change. For beginners, this guide follows three beekeepers using different hives through their first season. Featuring three different popular beehive designs: Top Bar, Warre and Flow, Janet Luke interviews the keepers and carries out inspections of their hives, looking at where to locate beehives, how to introduce the bees, comb management, varroa control, disease inspections, feeding bees, requeening, harvesting honey and preparing hives for the winter months.

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