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The beekeeper's handbook
Title:
The beekeeper's handbook
Author:
Sammataro, Diana.
ISBN:
9780801476945
Personal Author:
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Ithaca : Comstock Pub. Associates, Division of Cornell University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
x, 308 p. [pap]: ill. ; 28 cm.
Series:
Comstock/Cornell paperbacks

Comstock/Cornell paperbacks.
Contents:
Understanding bees -- Colony activities -- Beekeeping equipment -- Obtaining and preparing for bees -- Working bees -- Package bees -- Feeding bees -- Winter/spring management -- Summer/fall management -- Queens and queen rearing -- Special management problems -- Products of the hive -- Pathogens and parasites of honey bees -- Pests of honey bees -- Pollination -- Appendices.