Basics of … Beekeeping

“My grandfather kept bees and I used to watch him collect the honey from the hives. I always wanted to try beekeeping myself, produce a little honey for my breakfast toast, but gramps never taught me the craft. Fortunately, this book does. I’m going to buy a starter kit!”
- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner

A guide for the aspiring apiarist. All you need to know to get started in beekeeping. In this updated edition, a compilation of advice from Langstroth, Quinby, Huber, and a number of contemporary contributors, you will find everything you need to know about Honeybees, Apiculture, Honey and Pollen, the Hive, the Apiary, Breeding, Pasturage, Feeding, Swarming, Replacing the Queen, Enemies of Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, and the mysterious Behavior of Bees. Well illustrated.

Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810 -1895) is considered “the Father of American Beekeeping.” Langstroth is popularly credited with discovering the “bee space.” He was the inventor of the Langstroth Hive, the most commonly used hive design today.

Moses Quinby (1810-1875) is known as “the father of commercial beekeeping in the United States. He is credited with the invention of the modern bee smoker with bellows. At his peak, Quinby managed over 1,200 hives