Hive Management: A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers

by Richard E. Bonney

Book Overview

Enjoy a thriving hive and plenty of delicious honey. This practical guide to beekeeping stresses practices that are based on an understanding of the intimate lives, behaviors, and motivations of honey bees. You'll learn proven methods for inspecting your hives, troubleshooting problems, introducing a new queen, collecting honey, and dealing with swarms. Whether you're starting your first hive or are tending to dozens of them, Richard Bonney's clear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882666371
• ISBN13: 9780882666372
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

An excellent addition to the bee library, writer assumes reader understands how to install package bees, otherwise, very comprehensive from a practical viewpoint, very pleased I bought it ~

A stellar reference book for intermediate beekeepers

A well organized, sensible and rather complete book on beekeeping. Another must reference book for the beekeeper, new or experienced. Great companion to another book "the backyard beekeeper" by Kim Flottum. Together, these two books will more than satisfy the needs of hobbyist beekeepers.

a must have

Hive Management written by Richard Bonney is awesome! This is not intended to be your first bee book, however I have read two other books and started my bees just under 1 year ago, so this was perfect timing. It's an easy read and makes sense for the non-PHD bee keeper. The only negative is there's not many pictures, but I would highly recomend this book to anyone with bees!

Awsome Book

This book is well written and laid out in a great way to make keeping bees easier to understand. Highly reccomend this one.

This one is a keeper (pun intended).

In the past year I have borrowed from the library all the books I could find about beekeeping . This is one I plan to add to my personal library.