So far, excellent!
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Nicely written and highly informative by someone who evidently has an immense amount of experience and knowledge and who is happy to share it without ever becoming dogmatic.
I am a beginner to be-keeping and this book is giving me a great combination of directly applicable advice and an overview of how it all works together.
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good book for beekeepers in the UK, but slightly out of date
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the best book on beekeeping i have bought BUT it does give a false impression of how easy, spontaneous and predictable beekeeping is. Only the hands on experience of owning your own hives and keeping your own bees will give you a full insight.
My only other fault with this book was despite the fact it is very extensive and probably the best book on the matket it is slightly out of date, not containing some modern beekeeping methods and although it says it is completly up to date on Varroa, it isnt and for that information the best place to go is the DEFRA website at beebase.csl.gov.uk and look at there PDF about the control of the mite, this is the primary reason I didn't give this book 5 stars.
The chapter at the back labelled "flowers for food" gives an extensive overview of the diffrent forage for the bees and is better than other books I have bought that are designed to address solely the issue of bee forage, and it is worth buying the book just for this chapter alone
In conclusion despite being slightly out of date this is the best book I have found so far on beekeeping and no beekeepers book case is complete without it.
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Buy it you won't need another book on bees
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However, one of my beekeeping friends who has been keeping bees for some 20 plus years, refers to this book as his bible, he frequently disagrees with it, for example he frowns on the process of dividing the brood to increase the laying rate of the queen and thus expand the colony. Something you just have to live with I suppose.
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Bridgend Beekeepers Recommend Hooper
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There are many good beekeeping books on the market but this is the one that Bridgend Beekeepers recommend to all its new members.If you are looking for a good book to get started and still be useful to you when your beekeeping knowledge has increased then this is the one to buy.
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A well thought out, complete guide to beekeeping
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Known as the 'bee keepers bible' this book covers a wide range of topics from honey bee biology to sucessfully managing an entire apiary. A useful guide for existing bee keepers but probably a little complex for the beginner.
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