Bees in the City

Author: Brian McCallum
Publisher: Guardian Books
ISBN: 0852652534
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Beekeeping - once seen as an old-fashioned country pursuit - is increasingly attracting young metropolitan professionals, and new hives are springing up all over our cities. Whether you're attracted to beekeeping because you want to produce your own honey, do your bit to combat the threats that honeybee colonies face today, or simply reconnect with nature, Bees in the City provides a comprehensive guide to the subject. Written by the authors of the bestselling A World Without Bees, it: - introduces you to the school teachers, inner-city youngsters, City professionals and budding entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of this exciting new movement - suggests creative ways you can help bees in your own back garden without keeping a hive - provides extensive, practical information for the novice urban beekeeper, including tips on getting started and a month-by-month job guide Packed with invaluable advice on how to understand and support these extraordinary creatures, Bees in the City will inspire you to join this new urban revolution.

Get Started in Urban Beekeeping

Author: Claire Waring
Publisher: Teach Yourself
ISBN: 1473611784
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in the beekeeping community, this is the definitive, and most authoritative, guide to keeping bees in a city environment. Straightforward, up-to-date, and systematically organized, this book covers everything you might need, whether you're already an urban beekeeper or just starting out. It gives practical and clear information on the essentials that all apiarists need (whether in or out of the city), while covering in detail the particular requirements of urban bees. Specifically designed to be interactive, and easy to use, this at a glance title also features write-in checklists, interactive boxes in which you can record key information and dates, and a calendar that tells you what to do when and reminds you to carry out regular beekeeping tasks.

The Ultimate Guide to Urban Beekeeping

Author: Maxwell Honeycomb
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Ultimate Guide to Urban BeekeepingAre you ready to experience the joy of beekeeping, right in the heart of the urban jungle? Look no further - The Ultimate Guide to Urban Beekeeping is here to revolutionize your perspective on urban farming with these incredible buzzing creatures. In this captivating and extensively researched book, acclaimed beekeeping expert, Deborah Anderson, takes you on an unforgettable journey into the fascinating world of urban beekeeping. Whether you're a seasoned beekeeper or a novice craving to delve into this enchanting hobby, this comprehensive guide has everything you need to get started and excel in the buzzing world of urban beekeeping. Discover: The incredible benefits of urban beekeeping, from fostering environmental sustainability to producing your own delicious urban honey. Essential insights into the behavior and anatomy of bees, allowing you to understand your buzzing friends more deeply than ever before. Foolproof strategies to choose the perfect location for your urban beehive, ensuring the well-being and safety of both bees and your local community. The secrets to maintaining a thriving beehive year-round, from selecting the right bee species for your location to managing pests and diseases. Step-by-step instructions for properly installing and maintaining beehives in urban spaces of all sizes, including balconies, rooftops, and even tiny backyard gardens. Easy-to-follow techniques for nurturing your bees and harvesting your own delectable honey, along with tips for making lip-smacking honey-based recipes. Insider secrets for avoiding common mistakes that can hinder your beekeeping journey, empowering you to become a confident and successful urban beekeeper. Bonus: Featuring stunning full-color photographs, helpful diagrams, and captivating personal stories, The Ultimate Guide to Urban Beekeeping brings the mesmerizing world of buzzing bees right to your fingertips. Deborah's contagious passion for beekeeping will have you buzzing with excitement and inspired to create your own urban oasis teeming with these fascinating creatures. With its wealth of practical advice, engaging writing style, and breathtaking visuals, this guide will transform you into a master urban beekeeper in no time. So, grab your beekeeper's suit and embark on this extraordinary journey into the enchanting world of urban beekeeping! Your city, your bees, and your future self will thank you. Don't miss out on this buzz-worthy opportunity - get your copy of The Ultimate Guide to Urban Beekeeping today!

QueenSpotting

Author: Hilary Kearney
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1635860377
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 133

Book Description
At the heart of every bee hive is a queen bee. Since her well-being is linked to the well-being of the entire colony, the ability to find her among the residents of the hive is an essential beekeeping skill. In QueenSpotting, experienced beekeeper and professional “swarm catcher” Hilary Kearney challenges readers to “spot the queen” with 48 fold-out visual puzzles — vivid up-close photos of the queen hidden among her many subjects. QueenSpotting celebrates the unique, fascinating life of the queen bee and chronicles royal hive happenings such as The Virgin Death Match, The Nuptual Flight — when the queen mates with a cloud of male drones high in the air — and the dramatic Exodus of the Swarm from the hive. Readers will thrill at Kearney’s adventures in capturing these swarms from the strange places they settle, including a Jet Ski, a couch, a speed boat, and an owl’s nesting box. Fascinating, fun, and instructive, backyard beekeepers and nature lovers alike will find reason to return to the pages again and again.

Bee People and the Bugs They Love

Author: Frank Mortimer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0806540842
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Certified master beekeeper and president of the Northeast NJ Beekeepers Association, Frank Mortimer, chronicles the adventures and comedic misfortunes of beekeeping in a funny, noble odyssey into the fantastic, complex world of bees and their human custodians. A fascinating foray into the obsessions, friendships, scientific curiosity, misfortunes and rewards of suburban beekeeping—through the eyes of a Master Beekeeper... Who wants to keep bees? And why? For the answers, Master Beekeeper Frank Mortimer invites readers on an eye-opening journey into the secret world of bees, and the singular world of his fellow beekeepers. There's the Badger, who introduces Frank to beekeeping; Rusty, a one-eyed septuagenarian bee sting therapist certain that honey will be the currency of the future after the governments fail; Scooby the "dude" who gets a meditative high off the awesome vibes of his psychedelia-painted hives; and the Berserker, a honeybee hitman who teaches Frank a rafter-raising lesson in staving off the harmful influences of an evil queen: "Squash her, mash her, kill, kill, kill!" Frank also crosses paths with those he calls the Surgeons (precise and protected), the Cowboys (improvisational and unguarded) and the Poseurs, ex-corporate cogs, YouTube-informed and ill-prepared for the stinging reality of their new lives. In connecting with this club of disparate but kindred spirits, Frank discovers the centuries-old history of the trade; the practicality of maintaining it; what bees see, think, and feel (emotionless but sometimes a little defensive); how they talk to each other and socialize; and what can be done to combat their biggest threats, both human (anti-apiarist extremists) and mite (the Varroa destructor). With a swarm of offbeat characters and fascinating facts (did that bee just waggle or festoon?), Frank the Bee Man delivers an informative, funny, and galvanizing book about the symbiotic relationship between flower and bee, and bee and the beekeepers who are determined to protect the existence of one of the most beguiling and invaluable creatures on earth.

The Backyard Beekeeper, 4th Edition

Author: Kim Flottum
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1631595776
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels. More than a guide to beekeeping, this handbook features expert advice for: Setting up and caring for your own colonies Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees Swarm control Using top bar hives Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey Bee problems and treatments What's New? Information for urban bees and beekeepers Using your smoker the right way Better pest management Providing consistent and abundant good food Keeping your hives healthy With this complete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive.

Natural Beekeeping

Author: Ross Conrad
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603583637
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Whether you are a novice looking to get started with bees, an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to develop an integrated pest-management approach, or someone who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Now revised and updated with new resources and including full-color photos throughout, Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers. The new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive management, but offers new sections on a wide range of subjects, including: The basics of bee biology and anatomy Urban beekeeping Identifying and working with queens Parasitic mite control Hive diseases Also, a completely new chapter on marketing provides valuable advice for anyone who intends to sell a wide range of hive products. Other chapters include: Hive Management Genetics and Breeding The Honey Harvest The Future of Organic Beekeeping Ross Conrad brings together the best “do no harm” strategies for keeping honeybees healthy and productive with nontoxic methods of controlling mites; eliminating American foulbrood disease without the use of antibiotics; selective breeding for naturally resistant bees; and many other detailed management techniques, which are covered in a thoughtful, matter-of-fact way.

The Urban Beekeeper

Author: Steve Benbow
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448138647
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
At a time when the UK bee population is in decline there's no better way to make a difference than to start up your own beehive. Steve Benbow's enormous success with urban beekeeping show's how easy it is to keep bees, whether you're in the city or in the countryside, a beginner or an experienced beekeeper, and you'll never look back once you've tasted your very own sticky, golden honey, or lit a candle made from the beeswax from your beehive. Steve Benbow is a visionary beekeeper who started his first beehive ten years ago on the roof of his tower block in Bermondsey and today runs 30 sites across the city. His bees live atop the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Fortnum & Mason and the National Portrait Gallery, and he supplies honey to the Savoy tearooms, Harvey Nichols, Harrods and delis across London. His bees forage in parks, cemeteries, along railway lines and in window boxes, and because of the diversity of the plants and trees in the city, produce far richer honey and greater yields than they would in rural areas. The Urban Beekeeper is a fact-filled diary and practical guide to beekeeping that follows a year in the life of Steve and his bees and shows how keeping bees and making your own delicious honey is something anyone can do. It is a tempting glimpse into a sunlit lifestyle that starts with the first rays of the morning and ends with the warm glow of sunset, filled with oozing honeycomb, recipes for sensational honey-based dishes, and honey that tastes like sunshine. A hugely affectionate but practical diary of a beekeeper's year and the immense satisfaction of harvesting your own delicious honey. Read it and join the revolution.

Beekeeping For Dummies

Author: David Wiscombe
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
ISBN: 1119975689
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 567

Book Description
The fast and easy way to start and maintain a hive Beekeeping For Dummies is a practical, step-by-step beginner's guide to beekeeping. It gives you plain-English guidance on everything you need to know to start your own beehive, from buying the right equipment, sourcing bees, and locating your hive to maintaining a healthy colony and harvesting honey. Plus, you'll get the latest information on the causes and effects of bee disease, colony collapse disorder, and the impact the sudden disappearance of the honeybee has on our environment and economy. Here, you'll get trusted information on beekeeping in the UK, specifically written to address climate, buying equipment, locating hives, the local impact of colony collapse disorder and ways to avoid or minimise the risk to your hive, seasonal beekeeping tasks, local beekeeping associations, and updated content on urban beekeeping. Understand the anatomy of your bees Learn techniques and tips for harvesting, bottling, packaging, and selling honey Discover the benefits of beekeeping Learn techniques on obtaining and hiving your bees If you're a beginner beekeeper, taking a beekeeping course, or just have an interest in the plight of the honeybee, Beekeeping For Dummies has you covered!

Hives in the City

Author: Alison Gillespie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996025904
Category : Beekeepers
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
"During the 2013 bee season, author Alison Gillespie followed urban beekeepers working in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York to find out how they maintain their hives in the city, and why they are drawn to these fascinating insects. She also talked with the scientists investigating the causes of the honey bees' decline." -- P. [4] of cover.