Begin To Keep Bees : A complete guide for your first year of beekeeping. This is a book for the would-be beekeeper, focusing only on the activities and manipulations of the hive you'll need to master during the first year of this exciting hobby. A true step-by-step beekeeping book, each step is a separate paragraph(s). Some of the items covered include: ordering hive materials and accessories, buying and installing package bees and queens, capturing and hiving swarms, adding and inspecting brood and honey supers, removing and extracting honey supers, bee diseases and medicating, re-queening the hive and preparing for winter.

Keeping Bees : A complete guide for year two and for the rest of your years with the beekeeping hobby. Follows the step-by-step format of "Begin Too Keep Bees". This book can be used in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, with separate steps for colder areas(long cold winters, late spring) and for warmer areas (short warm winters, spring weather in January). Additional items covered in this book: early spring manipulations, spring medication, inspecting and/or re-queening the hive, producing comb honey, cleaning and storing honey supers, uniting hives, wintering the hives. Also, laying workers, wax moth, removing bees from house, trees, etc., observation hives, pollen traps, solar wax melter, fall medication and more.

Taking Advantage of the Behavior Traits of your Honey Bees Today : Unlike humans, the honeybee brain is full of instinctive behavior traits that it has acquired over the millions of years of its evolution. These behavior traits are unchanging and, knowing them, man can use them to his advantage. This book describes 100+ behavior traits of the honeybees in considerable detail. The manipulations of the hive are based on the behavior traits and activities of the bees. We must work within the behavior traits or the bees will swarm away or die. Knowing the traits may let us get the bees to do what we want done while still working within the constraints of the bees' behavior traits.

Tips and Tricks in Bee Keeping : Here we play tricks on the bees by using the behavior traits to lets us do things that only your (or my) imagination can think of. Examples: Bees always return to their own hive. Let's move the hive and make a hive divide or let's move the hive and re-queen a mean hive. Bees' swarm. Let's remove the swarm queen and unite(add) them to our weaker hives in a honey super above. Fifty years of tips and tricks that you will not find in most beekeeping books. Fifty years of doing manipulations, within the constraints of the behavior traits, that you may never have thought possible. Learn the tricks now or spend 50 years learning them from your beekeeping experience.