Teach Yourself Beekeeping: The ideal introduction for anyone to become and amateur or professional beekeeper (Teach Yourself: Animals) [Paperback]

Adrain Waring (Author)

Book Description

Series: Teach Yourself: Animals | Publication Date: August 7, 2006

Catch the buzz on beekeeping

This indispensable guide gives you everything you need to set up, maintain, and maximize honeybee colonies of all sizes--either in your suburban backyard or on your urban rooftop. With Teach Yourself Beekeeping, you will get:

• Information on bee biology
• A calendar for day-to-day and seasonal planning
• Troubleshooting tips
• Resources on classes and organizations

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Will be on our shelves for years to come." -- Bee Craft 20060801 'Every beekeeper should have a copy.' -- Bees 20061001 "Practical, clear and understandable...An extremely useful new text that will surely guide many to fruitful beekeeping." -- Bees for development 20061013 "Will teach you everything you need to know." -- The Scots Magazine 20061028 "a hive of useful information" -- Cotswold Life 20060801 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Adrain and Clare Waring have over 65 years of beekeeping experience between them. Both are former General Secretaries of British Beekeepers' Association.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (August 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071472703
• ISBN-13: 978-0071472708
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,030,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars my first book on beekeeping, July 25, 2009

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Ryan B. Jankowski (the State of Euphoria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Beekeeping: The ideal introduction for anyone to become and amateur or professional beekeeper (Teach Yourself: Animals) (Paperback)

"Teach Yourself Beekeeping" is intended to be an introductory work on beekeeping which assumes the reader has no former knowledge of the hobby. I am interested in starting a hive in the near future so thought this would be a good place to start after having watched a number of interesting youtube videos on the subject.

This book is certainly helpful and seemingly thorough on the topics it covers. There are color illustrations (about 16 pages) and a few diagrams which help illustrate the text.

The author's writing style is easy to follow and in that regard, I feel I gained a general understanding of beekeeping. Unfortunately, the chapter on hive details was quite sparse with no clear diagram as to the components of a hive. This an area I thought most important, so in that regard the book was quite disappointing.

Another problem I found with the book was that the author was British and is writing to a British audience (I live in North America). This affects his discussion on equipment, weather, and general practices (among other things).

The book is small and has 141 pages of written material. It is a quick read and in that regard, takes little time to gain some useful information. I suspect there are a lot better introductory books available and so in that regard, I only rate this book 3 stars.

2.0 out of 5 stars For Beekeeping Beginners, July 7, 2009

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Dr. M. Al-Fallouji "mara" (Liversedge, West Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Beekeeping: The ideal introduction for anyone to become and amateur or professional beekeeper (Teach Yourself: Animals) (Paperback)

This little book is written in a simplified language for newcomers or beginners in beekeeping. the book is not illustrated and avoids the scientific jargon and is written as a useful introduction to arouse the awareness and interest among the ordinary people to become beekeepers.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Respect, April 2, 2009

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Vic N (Kearney, Mo) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Beekeeping: The ideal introduction for anyone to become and amateur or professional beekeeper (Teach Yourself: Animals) (Paperback)

I ordered this book from my library to see if I may like to buy it. When I got the book, I was shocked to realize that the cover photo was made with a dead bee. How can I respect the author/authors for this kind of obvious lack of respect for their readers.