The Complete Guide to Beekeeping by Jeremy Evans (In collaboration with Sheila Berrett)

The Complete Guide to Beekeeping by Jeremy Evans (In collaboration with Sheila Berrett)A comprehensive guide to bees and beekeeping, starting with the novice and ending with the semi expert! It tells you all you need to know about taking up beekeeping on a small scale. Starting Beekeeping: When and where; hives and beekeeping equipment; buying secondhand; understanding honeybees. Siting Your Bees: Selecting a site; hiving your bees; feeding your bees; looking through the hive; avoiding bee stings. A Thriving Colony: Adding supers; using

A comprehensive guide to bees and beekeeping, starting with the novice and ending with the semi-expert! It tells you all you need to know about taking up beekeeping on a small scale.

Starting Beekeeping: When and where; hives and beekeeping equipment; buying secondhand; understanding honeybees.

Siting Your Bees: Selecting a site; hiving your bees; feeding your bees; looking through the hive; avoiding bee stings.

A Thriving Colony: Adding supers; using a queen excluder; how bees forage; the honey flow; taking off honey.

Wintering Down: Preparing and feeding the hive for winter; mice, damp, wax moth and other enemies.

The Second Year: Spring cleaning; getting a second hive; oil seed rape; the 'June gap'; problems with a poor harvest.

Planning Ahead: Keeping the queen in charge; requeening; making a nuc.

Swarming: Why bees swarm; swarms in action; catching and hiving a swarm; drone laying queens and other problems.

The Third Year And Beyond: Three years' beekeeping summary; commercial beekeeping; migratory hives.

Honey Bee Products: Honey for sale; honey for show; honey recipes; making mead; wax extracting; beeswax polish and candles; propolis and medicinal properties.

Honeybee Problems: Killer bees; bee pests and diseases.

Bees in History: Beekeeping from BC to the present century.

Plus - Glossary of beekeeping terms and information packed appendices.