Efnisyfirlit

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • How This Book Is Organised
    • Part I: Getting Hooked on Honey Bees
    • Part II: Starting Your Adventure
    • Part III: Looking Inside Your Hive
    • Part IV: Common Problems and Simple Solutions
    • Part V: Sweet Rewards
    • Part VI: The Part of Tens
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Part I: Getting Hooked on Honey Bees
  • Chapter 1: To Bee or Not to Bee?
    • Discovering the Benefits of Beekeeping
      • Harvesting liquid gold: Honey
      • Bees as pollinators: Their vital role in ensuring our food supply
      • Helping the bees; helping the environment
      • Passing on your knowledge
      • Good for your wellbeing; good for your health
    • Determining Your Beekeeping Potential
      • Environmental considerations
      • Being responsible and considering others
      • Costs and equipment
      • Time and commitment
      • Beekeeper personality traits
    • Overcoming Fear of Stings
      • Knowing what to do if you’re stung
      • Building up a tolerance
      • Watching for allergic reactions
  • Chapter 2: Life Inside the Honey Bee Hive
    • Basic Body Parts
      • Skeleton
      • Head
      • Thorax
      • Abdomen
    • The Amazing Language of Bees
      • Pheromones
      • Shall we dance?
    • Dividing Honey Bees into Three Castes
      • Her majesty, the queen
      • The industrious little worker bee
      • The woeful drone
    • The Honey Bee Life-Cycle
      • Egg
      • Larva
      • Pupa
• Part II: Starting Your Adventure
  • Chapter 3: Locating Your Hive
    • Getting Over ‘Buzz Off!’: Consulting Family and Neighbours
    • Location, Location, Location: Where to Keep Your Hives
      • Providing for your thirsty bees
      • Understanding why your honey varies in colour and flavour
    • Knowing When to Start Your Adventure
  • Chapter 4: Stocking Up on Basic Beekeeping Equipment
    • Finding Out about the Modified National Hive
    • Knowing the Basic Parts of the Hive
      • Hive stand
      • Floor
      • Entrance block
      • Brood chamber
      • Queen excluder
      • Super
      • Frames
      • Foundation
      • Crown board
      • Roof
    • Ordering Hive Parts
      • Preparing for assembly
    • Adding on Feeders
      • Miller and Ashforth rapid feeders
      • Bucket feeder
      • Frame feeder
    • Stocking Up on Your Personal Beekeeping Equipment
      • Smoker
      • Hive tool
    • Covering Up with Bee-Proof Clothing
      • Veils
      • Gloves
    • Really Helpful Accessories
      • Elevated hive stand
      • Frame rest
      • Bee brush
      • Other necessities
  • Chapter 5: Obtaining and Hiving Your Bees
    • Determining the Kind of Bee You Want
    • Deciding How to Obtain Your Initial Bee Colony
      • Picking a reputable bee supplier
      • Deciding when to place your order
      • Buying a nucleus colony
      • Transferring your nucleus to a hive
      • Purchasing an established colony
      • Capturing a wild swarm of bees
      • Ordering package bees
    • Meeting and Greeting: The Day Your Bees Arrive
      • Bringing home your bees
      • Feeding your bees
    • Buzzing with Excitement: Putting Your Bees into the Hive
• Part III: Looking Inside Your Hive
  • Chapter 6: Opening Your Hive
    • Setting an Inspection Schedule
    • Preparing to Visit Your Hive
      • Making ‘non-scents’ a part of personal hygiene
      • Getting dressed up and ready to go
      • Lighting your smoker
    • Opening the Hive
      • Removing the crown board
    • The Hive’s Open! Now What?
  • Chapter 7: What to Look for when You’re Inspecting
    • Exploring Basic Inspection Techniques: Examining a Full Colony
      • Removing the first frame
      • Working your way through the hive
      • Holding up frames for inspection
      • Understanding what to look for every time
      • Replacing frames
      • Closing the hive
    • Establishing a Colony from a Nucleus
      • Managing your nucleus
    • Starting your Colony with a Package of Bees
      • Checking in: A week after hiving your bees
      • The second and third weeks
      • Weeks four to eight
  • Chapter 8: Your Work throughout the Seasons
    • Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
      • Your summer to-do list
      • Your summer time commitment
    • Falling Leaves Point to Autumn Tasks
      • Your autumn to-do list
      • Making one hive from two
      • Your autumn time commitment
    • Clustering in a Winter Wonderland
      • Your winter to-do list
      • Your winter time commitment
    • Spring Is in the Air: Starting Your Second Season
      • Your spring to-do list
      • Making two hives from one
      • Your spring time commitment
      • Administering spring medication
      • Reversing hive bodies
• Part IV: Common Problems and Simple Solutions
  • Chapter 9: Heading Off Potential Problems
    • Avoiding Absconding
      • Swarming
      • Absconding
    • Where Did the Queen Go?
      • Letting nature take its course
      • Ordering a replacement queen
      • Introducing a new queen to the hive
    • Avoiding Chilled Brood
    • Dealing with the Dreaded Robbing Frenzies
      • Knowing the difference between normal and abnormal (robbing) behaviour
      • Putting a stop to a robbing attack
      • Preventing robbing in the first place
    • Ridding Your Hive of the Laying Worker Phenomenon
      • How to know if you have laying workers
      • Getting rid of laying workers
    • Preventing Pesticide Poisoning
  • Chapter 10: Treating Diseases and Considering Colony Collapse Disorder
    • Medicating when Necessary
    • Knowing the Big Six Bee Diseases
      • American foulbrood (AFB)
      • European foulbrood (EFB)
      • Nosema
      • Chalkbrood
      • Sacbrood
      • Stonebrood
      • A handy chart
    • Shedding Some Light on Colony Collapse Disorder and Vanishing Hives
      • Unlocking the mystery of the Mary Celeste hives
      • Discovering more about CCD
    • Exploring Potential Causes of CCD
      • The mobile phone theory
      • Pollinating insect research
    • A Final Word
  • Chapter 11: Buzz Off! Dealing with Honey Bee Pests
    • Preventing Parasitic Mites
      • Varroa mites
      • Controlling Varroa the natural way
      • Acarine (Tracheal mites)
    • Wax Moths
    • Ants, Ants and More Ants
    • Keeping Out Mice
    • Dealing with Birds that Have a Taste for Bees
    • Pest Control in a Nutshell
  • Chapter 12: Raising Your Own Queens
    • Why Raising Queens Makes You Proud
    • Accentuating the Positive: Choosing Good Traits
    • What Makes a Queen a Queen
      • Buzzing with love: Queen mating
    • Creating Demand: Making a Queenless Nuc
    • Queen Rearing: The Miller Method
    • Using an Artificial Swarm to Raise Queens
    • The Doolittle Method: Grafting
      • Tools and equipment
      • How it’s done
    • Trying Out the Jenter System
      • How it’s done
      • Providing nuptial housing
    • Finding a Home for Your Queens
• Part V: Sweet Rewards
  • Chapter 13: Getting Ready for the Golden Harvest
    • Choosing Extracted, Comb, Chunk or Soft-Set Honey
    • Using the Right Equipment for the Job
      • Honey extractors
      • Uncapping knife
      • Honey strainers
      • Other handy gadgets for extracting honey
      • Comb honey equipment
      • Honey containers
    • Planning Your Honey Harvest Set-Up
    • Labelling and Selling Your Honey
      • Creating an attractive label
      • Finding places to market your honey
  • Chapter 14: Honey, I’m Home: Harvest Time
    • Knowing When to Harvest
    • Getting the Bees Out of the Honey Supers
      • Shakin’ ’em out
      • Using a bee escape
      • Fume board and bee repellent
    • Food of the Gods: Honey Extraction
    • Cleaning Up after Extracting
      • Controlling wax moths
      • Harvesting wax
• Part VI: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 15: Ten Fun Things to Do with Bees
    • Starting an Observation Hive
    • Planting Flowers for Your Bees
    • Brewing Mead: The Nectar of the Gods
    • Getting Creative with Propolis
      • Propolis tincture
      • Propolis ointment
    • Making Candles and Polish from Beeswax
      • Beeswax candles
      • Beeswax furniture polish
    • Beauty and the Bees
      • Beeswax lip balm
      • Beeswax and olive oil salve
    • Getting up Close with a Microscope
  • Chapter 16: Ten Frequently Asked Questions about Bee Behaviour
  • Chapter 17: Ten Delicious Honey Recipes
  • Appendix A: Helpful Resources
    • Honey Bee Websites
      • Apiservices
      • Bee Master Forum
      • BeeHoo
      • British Beekeepers Association
      • Bush Farm
      • Cornwall Honey
      • David A Cushman
      • The Beespace
      • Vita (Europe)
    • Bee Organisations and Conferences
      • Apimondia: International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations
      • The BBKA Spring Convention
      • Bee Diseases Insurance Ltd (BDI)
      • Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association (BIBBA)
      • International Bee Research Association
      • The National Bee Unit of the Central Science Laboratory
      • The National Honey Show
      • The National Farmers Union
    • Bee Journals and Magazines
      • American Bee Journal
      • BBKA News
      • Bee Craft
      • Bee Culture
      • The Beekeepers Quarterly
      • Bee World
    • Beekeeping Supplies and Equipment
      • The Bee Shop
      • B J Sherriff
      • Brunel Microscopes Ltd
      • Compak
      • Giordan
      • Maisemore Apiaries Ltd
      • Modern Beekeeping
      • National Bee Supplies
      • Swienty Beekeeping Equipment
      • E H Thorne
  • Appendix B: Glossary
• Index
• EULA

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