The Backyard Beekeeper, 4th Edition: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden

The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels.
 
More than a guide to beekeeping, this handbook features expert advice for:

• Setting up and caring for your own colonies
• Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours
• The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees
• Swarm control
• Using top bar hives
• Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey
• Bee problems and treatments

What's New? 

• Information for urban bees and beekeepers
• Using your smoker the right way 
• Better pest management
• Providing consistent and abundant good food 
• Keeping your hives healthy

With this complete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive. 

• Beekeeping for Beginners: How To Raise Your First Bee Colonies
• The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses
• The Beekeeper's Handbook
• Beekeeping For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle))
• Beginning Beekeeping: Everything You Need to Make Your Hive Thrive!
• Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment: How to Construct 8- & 10-Frame Hives; Top Bar, Nuc & Demo Hives; Feeders, Swarm Catchers & More
• Building Beehives For Dummies
• The Bee Book: Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come
• Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Revised Edition
• Premium Beekeeping Supplies Starters Kit | 6 Piece Tool Set | Includes Bee Hive Smoker, Uncapping Fork Tool, Bee Brush, Frame Grip, Extracting Scraper, Bee Feeder Tool