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RECORD NUMBER: 272 OF 602| Main Title | Hive management : a seasonal guide for beekeepers / | ||||||||||||
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| Author | Bonney, Richard E. | ||||||||||||
| Publisher | Storey Communications, | ||||||||||||
| Year Published | 1990 | ||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 22511147 | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | 0882666371; 9780882666372 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects | Bee culture | ||||||||||||
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| Collation | viii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | ||||||||||||
| Notes | "A Garden Way Publishing book"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | Offers a comprehensive overview of the whole range of tasks beekeepers must perform in different seasons, with tips for preventing, controling, and capturing swarms, inspecting hives, harvesting honey, successfully requeening, and more. Initial inspection -- Spring management -- Swarming -- The queen -- Making increase -- Life of a worker -- Supering -- Hive inspections -- Comb honey -- Foraging -- Summertime -- Late season management -- Taking the crop -- Fall preparation -- Equipment -- Feeding -- Pollination -- Diseases, mites, and Africanized bees. |