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This practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, harvesting and marketing your honey, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honey bee has on our environment and economy.

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Howland Blackiston has been a backyard beekeeper since 1984. He has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs, including the Discovery Channel, CNBC, CNN, and NPR. He is the author of Beekeeping For Dummies.

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Common Knowledge

Original publication date
2009
Dedication
This book is lovingly dedicated to my wife, Joy, who is the queen bee of my universe. She has always been supportive of my unconventional whims and hobbies (and there are a lot of them) and never once did she make me feel li... (show all)ke a dummy for asking her to share our lives with honey bees. I also thank our wonderful daughter Brooke (now grown and married), who like her mother, cheerfully put up with sticky kitchen floors and millions of buzing "siblings" while growing up in our bee-friendly household.
First words
I've been keeping bees in my backyard since 1983, and I have a confession to make--I really love my bees.
Introduction: Keeping honey bees is a unique and immensely rewarding hobby.
Foreword: There are many good reasons to keep bees.

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Genres
Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Home & Garden
DDC/MDS
638.1TechnologyAgricultureInsect cultureBees, Honey, Wax
LCC
SF523 .B63AgricultureAnimal husbandry. Animal scienceAnimal cultureBee culture
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