Keeping bees and making honey
Book - 2008
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- Subjects
- Published
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Cincinnati, OH :
David & Charles
c2008.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Originally published: United Kingdom, 2008.
- Physical Description
- 127 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780715328101
- Introduction
- Understanding bees
- History
- Bee species
- The caste system
- The anatomy of a honey bee
- The birth cycle
- The life cycle
- What to consider
- Space
- Children
- Routine
- Housing your bees
- How a hive works
- Different types of hives
- Hive components
- What you'll need
- The kit
- Where and when to get your bees
- Getting your bees
- Making your bees feel at home
- Transferring your bees
- What's in the hive
- Pollen
- Adding supers
- Gardening for bees
- Gardens and flowers
- All about honey
- How bees make honey
- How much honey
- How to harvest honey
- How to jar honey
- How to show honey
- Selling your honey
- Honey in folklore
- Bees in winter
- Preparing for winter
- Second year
- The start of the second year
- Swarming
- Bee products
- Beeswax
- Beeswax candles
- Cosmetics
- Recipes
- Health and care
- Prevention and cure
- Glossary
- Index and Picture credits
- Useful addresses, links and acknowledgments
