Book “Beekeeper’s Self-Study Guide”
“Beekeeper’s Self-Study Guide” is a modern beekeeper’s book about breeding, keeping and treating honey bee colonies.
The book is designed to teach beekeepers professional methods of apiary management in different seasons. It contains a full description of a beekeeper’s work, along with rules and recommendations for beekeeping, helping beginners learn the craft from scratch while enabling experienced beekeepers to deepen their knowledge with modern methods.
“Beekeeper’s Self-Study Guide” is divided into 16 chapters:
- Basics of maintaining strong honey bee colonies
- Determining the strength of honey bee colonies
- Brood rearing. Growth of the honey bee colony
- Feed and feeding bees
- Techniques for working with bees, safety rules and fire safety
- Technology for caring for honey bee colonies throughout the year
- Features of keeping bees in different types of hives
- Reproduction of honey bee colonies
- Swarming of bees
- Bee breeds, their characteristics and use
- Honey-bearing resources for beekeeping
- Transporting bees
- Comb building by bees. Technology for obtaining wax in the apiary
- Prevention and treatment of honey bee colonies in the spring–autumn period
- Preparing honey bee colonies for the honey flow and making use of it
- Keeping bees in winter
At the end of “Beekeeper’s Self-Study Guide” there is space for personal notes, as well as a beekeeping calendar. The book is supplemented with diagrams, tables and black-and-white illustrations.
Reading “Beekeeper’s Self-Study Guide” will help beekeepers take a professional and creative approach to organising their work.
Specifications
Author: N. Krivtsov, V. Lebedev, O. Chupakhina, V. Chupakhin
Number of pages: 240
Size: 14,1x21
Binding: softcover
Language: Russian
Year of publication: 2012
