Product Description
Whether you’re a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to: — Acquire bees — Install a colony — Manage a hive — Take a crop of honey — Prevent and treat Varroa and tracheal mites — Learn about Africanized bees… More >>
Some of you may have noticed over the last few days, Amazon.Com feeds for books related to beekeeping. I have decided I will pull them from the posts because it really offers you no new information unless you consider book ads information. Unless of course I actually have the book on my shelf and can fairly review it.
This book is one of the first books, if not the first book I purchased about beekeeping over 10 years ago. It is followed by another book by the author involving the Seasonal Management of the bees. What I liked about this book is that it clearly, clearly, clearly, explains how to start right with beekeeping. It explains everything easily in layman’s terms and has enough pictures and diagrams to convey what is being done. I read this book twice in a row and it got me hooked on beekeeping. Before I wrote this I went to pull it off my shelf and realized I had loaned it to a friend who was thinking about beekeeping but wanted more information. I guess I will have to buy another copy.
The only down side is that it is dated in relation to the new pests and events effecting beekeeping today. Mites, Hive Beetle, CCD, etc.
Overall I give it 4 our 5 jars of honey.
