Graphic Guide to Beekeeping

A visual approach to beekeeping, with thousands of detailed illustrations to help you understand what makes a successful hive. Add some visual zing to your new beekeeping hobby with this graphic guide. These fully illustrated pages, perfect for visual learners, offer you complete, easy-to-understand whys and how-tos on every aspect of beekeeping, plus an entertaining approach. Thousands of detailed line drawings teach all you need to succeed with beekeeping, whether your goal is honey, beeswax, a backyard adventure, plant pollination, or all of the above. They let you peer closely at the bees' world, in terms of seeing their anatomy, close-ups of their food sources, and the microscopic world in the hive. This book covers topics such as choosing location, equipment, the best hive types, bee types, the beekeeping year and its tasks, keeping a healthy hive (or dozens), what to do when something goes wrong, how to harvest and process your honey, pollen, propolis, wax, and royal jelly, and more.