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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
190 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning Beekeeping is a simple, straightforward approach that gives you the basics to get started with beekeeping, while following a balanced, objective approach that weighs the pros and cons of conventional and organic methodologies. Featuring more than 120 beautiful color photos, this guide will help you will learn how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant hive colonies, as well as to incorporate the various techniques and practices for keeping...
63) City of bees
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Oliver and his friends join a beekeeper as he cares for his hives over the course of a year. The children learn how a queen bee rules the hive, the various jobs each bee performs, how bees pollinate, and how they can fly at amazing speeds.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
413 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Overview: The Beekeeper's Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover. Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from how to manage hives safely to harvesting one's own honey, and ideas for how to use honey and beeswax. Detailed instructions for making candles, furniture...
Author
Series
Hope Springs novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dark-haired beauty Indiana Keller buys a property in Hope Springs, Texas, for three reasons: to expand her vegetable business, to harvest and sell delicious honey from the property's established bee colony, and to reunite with her estranged siblings. While Indiana tries to reconnect with her brothers, two local men begin vying for her heart"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From building a hive to harvesting honey, a top urban beekeeper shares how to care for bees the simple, mindful way. Global bee populations have been rapidly declining for years, and it's not just our honey supply that's at stake: the contribution of bees to the pollination of crops is essential to human survival. But even in industrial apiaries, bees are in distress, hiving in synthetic and hostile environments. Enter idle beekeeping: the grassroots,...
69) Bumblebee
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a queen bee from the time she wakes from winter hibernation until cold weather returns to claim the colony she has built over the warm months.
70) Beehive
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
14 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about bees! Kids will learn to appreciate these crucial pollinators, and respect them instead of fear them."--
71) Beekeeping
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest information regarding every aspect of backyard beekeeping and honey production, this book describes how to get started, how to care for and safely handle bees, and how to maintain healthy and productive colonies.
Did you know that bees are responsible for every third or fourth bite of food we eat? Beekeepers make a valuable contribution to the food chain, but you'll need to keep up on medications, nutrition, bee health, and winter survival...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
160 pages : bb&w illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to beekeeping offers advice on getting started with the hobby, providing a history of bees and beekeeping and discussing how to buy colonies, keep records, manage a hive, and take care of stings.
77) Grey bees
Author
Language
English
Description
Sergey Sergeyich is one of the last residents of a Ukrainian village in the "Grey Zone," a no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces in Crimea. Sergeyich's one pleasure in life is taking care of his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must move the bees to a place they can safely collect pollen. On his journey, he will meet people on both sides of the battle lines in a country torn by war and chaos.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
66 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.
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