Download or read book Grant County Beekeeper written by Beekeeper Record and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beekeeping Journal: Grant County Beekeeper Record Book North Dakota For Bees Notebook This Beekeepers daily diary log book is a great way to keep track of the health of your beehive or beehives. There is a checklist for all of your important information, which include inspection notes, general hive appearance, weather conditions, signs of pest, is the queen bee present, temperament, is the population thriving, capacity (how full are the frames), reproduction (is there one egg or larva per cell), storing enough honey, brood pattern. There is also plenty of blank lined section for notes for any other issues or things you can write, for example are the bees actively entering and exiting the hive, or questions to ask, etc. Writing in journals and books is very helpful in keeping your information safe in one place. Never lose track of your precious bees records. This notebook is a perfect gift for bee lovers. Size is 6x9 inches, 103 pages, white paper, matte finish cover, paperback.
Download or read book A Survey of Beekeeping in North Carolina written by Elmer Grant Carr and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pp. 16.
Download or read book Back Yard Beekeeping 3 written by Grant F C Gillard and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So you started keeping honey bees last year. Your first year, no doubt, was overwhelming. You meticulously prepared them for winter and much to your surprise, they survived! Now what? On the other hand, if your first year ended in a total loss over the winter, what now? What lessons does a winter dead-out provide? What are the strategies to get a fresh start? How do you prevent repeating the same lessons over a second time?Second-year bee hives that survive the winter are an entirely different animal than the nuc or package you installed a year ago. These hives are ready go, which means a potential honey harvest awaits you. But before you order up your plastic squeeze bears and dream of winning a blue ribbon at the county fair, you will need to think about managing the swarming impulse. All colonies of honey bees carry a genetic instinct to swarm. If your honey bees swarm, you lose the margin of foragers responsible for your harvestable honey.Now the question becomes of whether or not you address the swarming inclination, and whether or not you want to harvest honey. Spoiler Alert: If you have close neighbors, it's a good idea to develop a strategy for swarm management. Secondarily, how will you prepare for a potential honey harvest? Where and how will you harvest your honey? Once harvested, then what? Where will you store it?Your second year also holds the promise of splitting hives, making nucs, and the possibilities of expanding. Maybe you'll need an additional location. How far do you want to take this dream of expanding your hobby?Second-year beekeeping holds a lot of promise. Each choice contains a variety of options. In this volume from the Back Yard Beekeeping series, Missouri beekeeper Grant Gillard explores potential scenarios and the possible options. Grant started keeping honey bees in 1981, back in the days when this hobby was far less complicated. Today, he manages around 200 colonies and sells his honey at local farmer's markets. Follow Grant's advice and suggestions to make the most of your hobby, with the special emphasis on choosing the option that works best for you.
Download or read book North Carolina Beekeeper written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Beekeeping written by Ross Conrad and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a novice looking to get started with bees, an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to develop an integrated pest-management approach, or someone who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Now revised and updated with new resources and including full-color photos throughout, Natural Beekeeping offers all the latest information in a book that has already proven invaluable for organic beekeepers. The new edition offers the same holistic, sensible alternative to conventional chemical practices with a program of natural hive management, but offers new sections on a wide range of subjects, including: The basics of bee biology and anatomy Urban beekeeping Identifying and working with queens Parasitic mite control Hive diseases Also, a completely new chapter on marketing provides valuable advice for anyone who intends to sell a wide range of hive products. Other chapters include: Hive Management Genetics and Breeding The Honey Harvest The Future of Organic Beekeeping Ross Conrad brings together the best “do no harm” strategies for keeping honeybees healthy and productive with nontoxic methods of controlling mites; eliminating American foulbrood disease without the use of antibiotics; selective breeding for naturally resistant bees; and many other detailed management techniques, which are covered in a thoughtful, matter-of-fact way.
Download or read book The Iowa Beekeepers Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisconsin Beekeeping written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitution and Membership written by Wisconsin State Beekeepers' Association, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cooperative Extension in Grant County the First Forty Years written by Wilfred Pierick and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping Honey Bees and Swarm Trapping written by Grant F. C. Gillard and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarm trapping is another aspect to free bees that entails catching that runaway swarm even when I'm not around and in places I can't always be. I've had my share of experiences where the swarm departed for some unknown destination, and then I've wondered about the swarms that come out of bee trees in remote areas where no human being was able to discover them and call me. And what about the swarms that people find but they don't know who to call? Eventually those swarms will leave for a hollow tree or somebody's garden shed. How can I get those swarms I don't even know about? Then I began to think about creating some kind of a temporary location that would attract the scout bees so I wouldn't necessarily have to be present to retrieve the swarm, or if I arrived a minute too late, how I might still catch that swarm by setting a trap over the hill or in various locations around the community? Think about it. You get a swarm call. The swarm has left the hive and is clustered on a rose bush in someone's yard. There's a scared and nervous homeowner who wants the bees removed right now. The scout bees are out looking for a new location which they can call home. The scout bees are searching diligently as you ask some simple questions over the phone about how high the swarm is and how long they've been there. You get organized and start to drive to the swarm site. As you drive to the swarm location, the scout bees begin to narrow down their criteria for the best site. You hit a red light at the intersection. The swarm cluster begins to unwind and take off. You pull over for a funeral procession on the highway. The swarm cluster flies away to a tree about a half mile from the swarm site and they begin to fill the knot hole in a hollow tree, unbeknownst to anyone in the neighborhood. No one has seen them enter that old tree. You pull up to the swarm site. The nervous homeowner, still in a state of shock as he witnessed the unwinding swarm, mutely points to the few stranglers, the confused scout bees that missed the swarm's departure for the new site. And you realize you're about five minutes too late. You curse the red lights you refused to run (probably a good thing!). So you sit around for a few more minutes and visit with the homeowner figuring the whole experience has been nothing but a waste of time. You can't begin to explain to the homeowner what really happened. They wouldn't understand. You vainly scan the sky hoping the swarm is still around. The homeowner wants to know where they went to, hoping they left for somewhere else. But you're not really sure. All you really know is they are gone and you have nothing to show for your interest. And so you leave with that empty feeling of being a day late and a dollar short. Again. I've had so many of these experiences over the years that I got to thinking on how to create a box, an artificial cavity to mimic a hollow tree that would attract the bees so I didn't have to be everywhere at the same time. I could space out several of these boxes around the county to catch those bees that get away. I could have a dummy hive, a bait box to attract those swarms that no one sees. It would be a decoy box that would house the swarm until I found time to check it and move it at my convenience.
Download or read book Dixie Beekeeper written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dairy beekeeper and wool programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Honey in Georgia and the Carolinas written by April Aldrich and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, Georgia and the Carolinas produced millions of pounds of honey and created a lasting legacy within the industry. The uses for the sweet nectar go well beyond flavor. Bee pollination extensively benefits agricultural crops in the area. Elements from the beehive are commonly used in popular cosmetics, medicines and mead. Beekeepers also face serious challenges like Colony Collapse Disorder. Join author and beekeeper April Aldrich as she traces the delectable history of honey and beekeeping throughout the region, from ancient apiaries to modern meaderies and beyond.
Download or read book Domestic Beekeeper written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beekeeping in Wisconsin written by L. V. France and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beekeepers Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beekeeper s Ball written by Susan Wiggs and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich harvest…and family secrets that have long been buried Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the enchanting Sonoma town of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination cooking school—a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel's project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. He's always been better at exposing the lives of others than showing his own closely guarded heart, but the pleasures of small-town life and the searing sensuality of Isabel's kitchen coax him into revealing a few truths of his own.
