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The beekeeper's handbook

Sammataro, Diana (author.). Avitabile, Alphonse, (author.). Caron, Dewey M. (Dewey Maurice), (writer of foreword.).

This guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping provides step-by-step instructions 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 fifth edition has undergone substantial changes that reflect the most recent findings of scientists and beekeepers

Book  - 2021
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Bee culture > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
  • ISBN: 9781501752612
  • ISBN: 1501752618
  • Physical Description print
    x, 356 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm
  • Edition Fifth edition.
  • Publisher Ithaca, New York : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Understanding bees -- Colony activities -- Beekeeping equipment -- Obtaining and preparing for bees -- Working bees -- Package bees -- Feeding bees -- Winter/Spring management -- Summer/Fall management -- Queens and queen rearing -- Special management problems -- Products of the hive -- Pathogens and parasites of honey bees -- Pests of honey bees -- Pollination.