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Backyard Beekeeper, 4th Edition: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden

Backyard Beekeeper, 4th Edition: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden

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The Backyard Beekeeper is a guide to beekeeping for urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels, featuring expert advice on setting up and caring for colonies, swarm control, harvesting, and bee problems and treatments.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 04 January 2018
\n Publisher: Quarry Books
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The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, has made the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime for urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels. This handbook is more than a guide to beekeeping; it features expert advice for setting up and caring for your own colonies, selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours, the most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees, swarm control, using top bar hives, harvesting the products of a beehive, and collecting and using honey. Additionally, the book includes information for urban bees and beekeepers, such as using your smoker the right way, better pest management, providing consistent and abundant good food, and keeping your hives healthy. With this complete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.

\n Weight: 830g\n
Dimension: 216 x 207 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781631593321\n
Edition number: Fourth Edition\n

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