Bbka Guide to Beekeeping, Second Edition

The number of people interested and active in keeping bees at an amateur level has continued to increase over the past few years in both rural and urban situations. This guide, aimed at beginning beekeepers, and the only one to be endorsed by the BBKA provides an authoritative text, along with clear photographs and illustrations.
The book introduces the reader to beekeeping, including such areas as the workings of the colony, the structure of a hive, how to acquire bees and keep them healthy and what happens in each month in a beekeeping year.
Each chapter is accompanied by anecdotes, answers to frequently asked questions and fascinating facts about bees and honey.
The new edition includes new step-by-step sequences to illustrate procedures such as containing a swarm, identifying the queen, using a smoker and cleaning a hive as well as more information on different kinds of hives, disease management and many other key areas.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Bees and beekeeping
The colony
The hive
The history of bees
The beekeeping year
Queens and drones
Swarms
Bee and colony health
Plants and hive products
Getting started
Contacts, Glossary and Index

About the author

Ivor Davis is a past president of the BBKA, a Master Beekeeper and one of the few people to hold the National Diploma in Beekeping.Roger Cullum-Kenyon has been a beekeeper for more than 30 years and is managing director of BBKA enterprises.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Cullum-Kenyon, Cullum-Kenyon Roger, Ivor Davis, Ivor Cullum-Kenyon Davis, Davis Ivor
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2018
• EAN: 9781472962430
• ISBN: 978-1-4729-6243-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Insects (entomology), Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Agriculture and farming, Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders, Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle