Jim Tew

Wisdom for Beekeepers (eBook, PDF)

500 tips for successful beekeeping

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The perfect gift for the beekeeper in your life - both those new to the craft and more experienced keepers.

Wisdom for Beekeepers is a comprehensive collection of 500 beekeeping tips written by life-long beekeeper Jim Tew. It covers all aspects of beekeeping including:

- Becoming a Beekeeper
- Beekeeping Equipment
- The Beekeeping Year
- Getting Live Bees
- Colony Management
- Honey
- Bee By-Products
- Pollination
- Ailments
- Bee Biology

The tips are grouped logically so that novices can build their knowledge gradually, while old hands may prefer to dip in and out at random or use the index to refer to specific topics.

Illustrated throughout with specially commissioned linocut prints by award-winning printmaker Melvyn Evans, Wisdom for Beekeepers is an ideal introductory read for both newcomers to beekeeping and more experienced beekeepers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472915269
• Artikelnr.: 41221364

Autorenporträt

James E. Tew has been keeping bees for over 40 years. He has a PhD in Entomology and is currently a Consulting Professor at Auburn University, where he conducts beekeeping educational programs and maintains social media systems that support the Alabama beekeeping industry. Recently retired from The Ohio State University, where he worked for 33 years as an Associate Professor focusing on pollination ecology and the use of honey bees and native bees as pollination agents, Jim still runs lectures and workshops for beekeepers in the US and UK, and runs the website One Tew Bee (www.onetew.com). Jim has also written numerous books, as well as articles for Bee Culture magazine.