An edition of A Practical Manual of Beekeeping
(2008)
A Practical Manual of Beekeeping
How to keep bees and develop your full potential as an apiarist
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A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globetrotting career? Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all.Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as a vital agricultural industry and can therefore also offer you a globe trotting career. The whole subject is, however, often shrouded in mystery and loaded with jargon, leaving many people unaware of its true potential or how to start. This book strips away all the mystery and explains step by step how - from day one - you can start beekeeping as a hobby; how you can progress to running a beekeeping business; or how you can start a career as a beekeeper which can quite easily take you all over the world. No other guide explains in such detail the true potential and accessibility of beekeeping or of being a beekeeper.
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2008
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How To Books by Deer Park Productions,
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Table of Contents
List of photographs xi
Introduction xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Honey-bees and human beings 1
Understanding the relationship between bees and pollination 1
Profiting from a gold mine 2
Coping with bee stings 4
Making a hobby of beekeeping 4
Bees and learning 5
Master chemists 5
Researching honey-bees 6
Becoming a beekeeper 6
The world is your oyster 8
2 Understanding the honey-bee colony 9
Considering the colony as a single organism 9
Bee development 10
Queen bees 12
Worker bees 15
Drone bees 21
The politics of the hive, or ‘who tells whom what to do?’ 23
The birth of a queen 25
Colony nest requirements 27
The beekeeper’s role 28
Summary 29
vi. A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF BEEKEEPING
3 Using the products of the hive and bees 31
Producing honey 31
Collecting pollen 35
Harvesting royal jelly 36
Producing beeswax 38
Collecting propolis 40
Producing venom 42
Harvesting silk 43
Summary 44
4 Obtaining equipment and bees 45
Acquiring beehives 45
Choosing the type of beehive 57
Buying second-hand hives 59
Obtaining new hives or making your own 60
Acquiring other beekeeping equipment 60
Clothing 63
Obtaining bees 65
Acquiring gentle bees 66
Starting beekeeping: a summary 67
Acquiring the equipment 69
When to obtain your bees 69
What next? 70
5 Starting with bees 71
Positioning your hives 71
Arranging insurance in rural and urban areas 77
Your bees arrive 77
Summary 81
6 The active season: spring 82
Starting in the springtime 82
Swarming 91
Supersedure 109
Building up the colony 110
Summary 113
CONTENTS. vii
7 The active season: summer and autumn 115
Taking your bees to harvest 115
Supering up 116
Harvesting honey 118
Extracting the honey 126
Analysing your extracted honey 127
Dealing with the aftermath 131
Producing comb honey 132
Granulated and creamed honey 135
Inspecting the hive post-harvest 135
Marketing honey 136
The year so far: a summary 136
8 Dealing with problems 138
Laying workers 138
Coping with aggressive colonies 141
Dealing with robber bees 144
Uniting colonies 146
Preventing spray damage 148
Moving hives 150
Dealing with queen problems 152
Introducing a new queen: a summary 160
9 Overwintering your bees: autumn to spring 162
Preparing for winter 162
Making feed mixes 167
Storing sugar syrup 170
The spring start 171
The beekeeping year: a summary 175
10 Controlling diseases and pests 178
Managing diseases and pests 178
Wax moth 179
Brood diseases 182
Other brood problems 190
Adult bee diseases 192
Other pests and disorders 208
Yet other pests 212
Summary 214
viii. A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF BEEKEEPING
11 Rearing queens and breeding bees 216
Why rear your own queens? 216
Choosing the time of year to re-queen 217
Queen rearing: an outline 218
Preparing the larvae 218
Moving the larvae 221
Rearing queens: methods 222
Inducing supersedure 232
Marking your queens 232
Troubleshooting queen cells 235
Assessing queen cells 236
Assessing queens 237
Keeping records 237
Breeding queens 237
Practical bee breeding 242
A bee breeding system: an example 246
Bee breeding: a summary 247
12 Exploring products and career possibilities 248
Pollination 248
Harvesting other products of the hive 252
Going organic 264
Making a career in beekeeping 266
Beekeeping around the world 272
Finale 273
Weights and measures ready-reckoner 275
Further reading 279
International beekeeping organizations 283
Beekeeping charities 285
Beekeeping journals 287
Beekeeping supply companies 289
Index 293
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