The Complete Guide to Beekeeping

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This popular guide to beekeeping, designed for beekeepers and prospective beekeepers throughout North America, has been highly praised by both professionals and amateurs. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated in this third edition. It offers full instructions on how to start an apiary, beginning with advice on appropriate sites (even a Los Angeles or New York City rooftop will support a hive or two), equipment, obtaining bees, feeding, swarm control, maintenance and honey exfraction, and continuing with information on predators, diseases and requeening. The chapter on mead, the wine made from honey, provides easy-to-follow instructions for the home winemaker. The Complete Guide to Beekeeping is considered the standard introductory work on the subject. It is an indispensable tool for the novice beekeeper. roger a. morse is Professor of Apiculture atCornell University. A graduate of Cornell, he earned his Ph.D. there and now directs all teaching and other work on bee... Tovább

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This popular guide to beekeeping, designed for beekeepers and prospective beekeepers throughout North America, has been highly praised by both professionals and amateurs. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated in this third edition. It offers full instructions on how to start an apiary, beginning with advice on appropriate sites (even a Los Angeles or New York City rooftop will support a hive or two), equipment, obtaining bees, feeding, swarm control, maintenance and honey exfraction, and continuing with information on predators, diseases and requeening. The chapter on mead, the wine made from honey, provides easy-to-follow instructions for the home winemaker. The Complete Guide to Beekeeping is considered the standard introductory work on the subject. It is an indispensable tool for the novice beekeeper. roger a. morse is Professor of Apiculture atCornell University. A graduate of Cornell, he earned his Ph.D. there and now directs all teaching and other work on bee culture at the university. Professor Morse has been keeping bees ever since he was ten years old. He and his father at one time operated nearly four hundred colonies of bees in the Hudson River Valley in New York State. Professor Morse has taught as a Visiting Professor at the universities of the Philippines and Sáo Paulo, Brazil. He has served as a consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Burma, Nepál, Egypt and other countries. He is the author of many scientific books and articles on bee culture and is co-editor of The lllustrated Encyclopedia of Beekeeping. Vissza