Author: Peter Warhurst & Roger Goebel
2nd edition 2005
Contains detailed information on honeybees and every aspect of responsible, sucessful beekeeping. For the hobbist or full-time commercial operators. The bee book has been written and compiled by beekeepers who are also apiary officers of the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland. It draws on their personal experience and that of other beekeepers, as well as over 100 years of DPI&F research and experience.
This practical, readable and comprehensive book contains detailed information on honeybees and on every aspect of responsible, successful beekeeping – whether as a hobby, a part-time occupation or a commercial operation. It also covers the special requirements of managing hives in Australia where, in contrast to cooler areas, bees often continue to breed and gather honey throughout the winter.
TEMPORARILY OUT OF PRINT.
The book has 196 pages, 61 colour plates, 137 other pictures and covers:
- An introduction to bee and beekeeping
- The honeybee colony
- Beginning in bees
- Hive construction and preservation
- General management
- Flora
- Feeding and watering bees
- Queen bees and package bees
- Swarming
- Removing the honey crop
- Honey extracting
- Useful machinery
- Products of the hive
- Pollination
- Pests of bees
- Endemic diseases of bees
- Chemical poisoning of bees
- Exotic diseases and pests
- Australian native bees.
