Natural Beekeeping, 2nd Edition Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture Reviews

Natural Beekeeping, 2nd Edition: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture by Ross Conrad (Author), Gary Paul Nabhan (Foreword). Today’s beekeepers face unprecedented challenges, a truth that’s now front-web page news with the spread of “colony collapse disorder.” Newly launched pests like varroa and tracheal mites have made chemical therapy of hives commonplace practice, but pest resistance is constructed, which in flip creates demand for brand new and much more poisonous chemicals. Actually, there’s proof that chemical remedies are making issues worse.

It is time for a brand new approach. Now revised and updated with new assets and together with full-coloration pictures throughout, Natural Beekeeping affords all the most recent info in an e book that has already confirmed invaluable for organic beekeepers. The brand new edition provides the same holistic, smart different to conventional chemical practices with a program of pure hive administration, but gives new sections on a wide range of subjects, including:

The basics of bee biology and anatomy;

-City beekeeping;

-Figuring out and working with queens;

-Parasitic mite control; andv -Hive diseases.

Additionally, a completely new chapter on advertising provides worthwhile advice for anyone who intends to sell a wide range of hive products.

Ross Conrad brings together the best “do no harm” methods for keeping honeybees wholesome and productive with nontoxic methods of controlling mites; eliminating American foulbrood illness without the usage of antibiotics; selective breeding for naturally resistant bees; and plenty of different detailed administration methods, which are lined in a considerate, matter-of-fact way.

Whether you are a novice trying to get started with bees, an experienced apiculturist searching for concepts to develop an integrated pest-management approach, or somebody who wants to sell honey at a premium worth, that is the guide you’ve got been ready for.

Love the recommendation given in this book. Nice price, one of the simpler beekeeping books to take a seat down and skim and the photographs are great! It is rather informative and good reading. Will be able to use this ebook as a very good reference with in the future.

Natural Beekeeping, 2nd Edition: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture

Ross Conrad (Author), Gary Paul Nabhan (Foreword)

304 pages

Chelsea Green Publishing; Rev Exp edition (March 8, 2013)

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