Beekeeping Starter Guide

Beekeeping Starter Guide
Olivia Cooper

Learn all you need to know in starting your colony with this how-to guide for a beekeeping

This practical guide provides you with all the essentials of beekeeping that will help make your backyard beekeeping a breeze. It introduces some concepts, tools, and resources that can handle your beehive, plan your first colony, with sound advice for caring for your bees so that you can enjoy the harvest of your hard work.

Partly a history book and part handbook, this illustrated manual covers important aspects of the ancient hobby of beekeeping in a modern and simple to understand way. In this book, you will learn how to manage hives safely, harvest your own honey, with other simple ideas on how to store and market the honey and beeswax you produce.

Other things to expect in this book, include:

Practical information on the workings of a hive, how and where to set up hives to increase the chances of maximum success, buying and installing quality bees, and feeding bees

Suggested effective for dealing with common hive pests and diseases, including possible reasons for colony collapse disorder (CCD), backed up with studies and research.

Guide for enjoying rich and bounty honey harvests, with instructions to aid you processing, storing and marketing the products from your hives, as well as how to make products from your harvest

Guidance for different seasons that ensure your hives stay healthy, strong and refreshed throughout their life cycle

Identify when your hive goes queenless to ensure your bees do not start producing infertile eggs that can jeopardize the survival of your hive.

If you’re new to beekeeping, Beginning Beekeeping is the perfect companion to get you started!

Beekeeping Starter Guide

The Complete User Guide to Keeping Bees, Raise Your Bee Colonies and Make your Hive Thrive in your Backyard or Garden

Olivia Cooper

© 2020 Olivia Cooper

All rights reserved.

Beekeeping Starter Guide

The Complete User Guide to Keeping Bees, Raise Your Bee Colonies and Make your Hive Thrive in your Backyard or Garden

Olivia Cooper

© 2020 - Olivia Cooper

This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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Table of Content

INTRODUCTION (#ulink_2e4b7a78-8732-5890-8e54-ca7ead3d36f5)

CHAPTER 1

ABOUT BEES

TYPES OF BEE SPECIES (#ulink_39d1461a-6ab5-5426-8cf6-2b832fff1944)

TYPES OF BEES IN A HIVE (#ulink_8e840b51-278d-5fdc-8d85-1b949e8895e2)

THE EGGS AND DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF A BEE (#ulink_85d08e33-67c0-514f-9ccb-9d133fe2b80f)

LIFE CYCLE OF A BEE (#ulink_2e7e88da-fc91-50be-b5bc-f00fca9e63f0)

CHAPTER 2

WHY BEEKEEPING IS IMPORTANT

SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF BEEKEEPING (#ulink_9996dad6-22d6-5bfd-b46a-33533f042336)

CHALLENGES OF BEEKEEPING (#ulink_ed75b106-a687-5d83-b705-036c3200a98b)

CHAPTER 3

HISTORY OF BEEKEEPING

EFFECT OF DISAPPEARING BEES (#ulink_467b2fbb-b5b5-5922-990a-80ae9aa84682)

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DISAPPEARING BEES (#ulink_f81f4a68-27c5-54d1-ac8f-d7bdd2743077)

CHAPTER 4 (#ulink_9bc4ad64-03e7-55eb-9ce3-a0b03b64bff8)

PROCESS OF BEEKEEPING

DETERMINANTS OF A HIVES LOCATIONS (#ulink_0baf5f39-4b7d-5df7-a848-9c3606d3f4fa)

BREEDING BEES (#ulink_bd8f2b38-1f0a-5b47-a2ba-33d968daf60f)

DISEASES AND PESTS OF BEES (#ulink_bfe201e4-8831-5796-aa46-7b3bbf9b82fa)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_dfcb534a-9806-5827-97f2-ce31d64bdd2b)

PROCESS OF HONEY PRODUCTION

THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS (#ulink_ca0ac02d-4c93-59e7-ba13-eb493d194265)