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Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!

By (author) Tanya Phillips

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Â Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers. Â Featuring more than 120 color photos, Beginning Beekeeping will teach any beginner how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant colonies. Youâ€™ll learn how to set up a colony and attract bees, how to incorporate best practices and techniques for keeping colonies strong, and how to troubleshoot and treat a broad range of common hive issues. Along the way, youâ€™ll learn how to harvest your honey and keep your bees healthy and happy. Â Included in Beginning Beekeeping: Â Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Practical information on how a hive works, how and where to set up hives for maximum success, buying and installing bees, feeding bees, and more, with recommendations for both urban and rural settings Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Effective treatment recommendations for dealing with common hive pests and diseases including mites, foulbrood, and colony collapse disorder (CCD), with recommendations for both conventional and organic treatments Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Tips for dealing with common hive issues such as swarming, robbing, absconding, as well as guidance for managing aggressive hives and tips for keeping a queenright colony Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Instructions for enjoying rich, bountiful honey harvests, and instructions for processing and storing the honey and wax from your hives, as well how to make products from your harvest Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Seasonal guidance to ensure your hives return healthy and strong each and every year Â If youâ€™re new to beekeeping, Beginning Beekeeping is the perfect companion to get you started!