Product Description

Whether you're a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to: -- Acquire bees -- Install a colony -- Manage a hive -- Take a crop of honey -- Prevent and treat Varroa and tracheal mites -- Learn about Africanized bees

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47055 in Books
• Published on: 1993-01-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Back Cover
Whether you're a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to:

-- Acquire bees
-- Install a colony
-- Manage a hive
-- Take a crop of honey
-- Prevent and treat Varroa and tracheal mites
-- Learn about Africanized bees

About the Author
A beekeeper for over 13 years, author Richard E. Bonney owns Charlemont Apiaries in Charlemont, Massachusetts. He has authored two books, Hive Management and Beekeeping, which reviewers such as The Speedy Bee have given much praise: "Delightfully readable...full of answers...written in a refreshing and authoritative way that demonstrates the depth of the author's experience... [Bonney provides] the kind of information one needs to understand beekeeping." The Library Journal has also complimented the book: "This useful book is crammed with helpful hints... [Bonney] discusses the 'hows' and, most important, the 'whys' of effective hive management."

Richard is a beekeeping teacher at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He was named the Massachusetts Extension Specialist-Apiculture in 1991 and writes regularly about beekeeping.

Customer Reviews

Beekeeping A Practical Guide
Mr. Bonney's Book was an easy read. I read it in 3 evenings. The 'Practical Guide' is just that - a 'Road Map'. I appreciated Mr. Bonney's opinions and lack of wishy-washy caveats. I did not find the short-falls another reviewer found.

I appreciate the Tables that present the Data and capsulize that Data or Information. For example, I finished the Book, went on line, Yahooed 'Beekeeping', found some vendors and successfully prepared a 'general' or 'ballpark' budget based on recommended hive dimensions, clothing and so on - in less than 30 minutes!

My demeanor is such that I prefer to make my own decisions and Mr. Bonney clearly stated when he held a view where others differed. This is not a 'my way or the highway' Book.

Excellent for presenting the realities of beekeeping.
"Beekeeping - a practical guide" is is exactly what it says it is. It presents the facts of beekeeping in a way that fascinate you with the wonders of the hobby and mixes in the pitfalls that would, stated alone, send you away disappointed if you are are a beginner like me. By the time you finish reading the book and have weighed all of the information, the truly interested reader will be looking for another book to expand on all of the points Richard Bonney presents and also planning thier first colony. Good Luck.

Good starter book, but lacking detail.
A very good starter book, but still needs more precise detail. For example, warns of swarms and to watch for, but does not say "what" to watch for. Assumes reader knows something about bees and their habits. I do not. Am a beginner from the word go, and need more information than this books holds. However, a good addition to the home collection.