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"His writing, like his talks, has more content, detail, and depth than one would think possible with such few words... his website and PowerPoint presentations are the gold standard for diverse and common sense beekeeping practices."--Dean Stiglitz

Michael Bush is an internationally recognized author and speaker on natural beekeeping. He is the author of The Practical Beekeeper, which has been published in five languages and is one of the authoritative sources on sustainable beekeeping without chemical treatments. His website is an invaluable source of information on natural, chemical-free beekeeping and just plain beekeeping. The topics are based on the questions that have come up on beekeeping forums over and over. The wisdom of his metho
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Average rating: 4.26 · 230 ratings · 27 reviews · 6 distinct works
The Practical Beekeeper: Be...

4.49 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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The Practical Beekeeper Vol...

3.88 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011
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The Practical Beekeeper Vol...

3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011
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“There are few solutions as universal in their application and their success, than adding a frame of open brood from another hive every week for three weeks. It is a virtual panacea for any queen issues. It gives the bees the pheromones to suppress laying workers. It gives them more workers coming in during a period where there is no laying queen. It does not interfere if there is a virgin queen. It gives them the resources to rear a queen. It is virtually foolproof and does not require finding a queen or seeing eggs or accurately diagnosing the problem. If you have any issue with queenrightness, no brood, worried that there is no queen, this is the simple solution that requires no worrying, no waiting, no hoping and no guessing. You just give them what they need to resolve the situation. If you have any doubts about the queenrightness of a hive, give them some open brood and sleep well. Repeat once a week for two more weeks if you still aren't sure. By then things will be well on thei ...more Michael Bush
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“The best way to overcome the fear of loss, and therefore the fear of doing nothing, is to change your attitude."--Michael Bush, The hardest thing to do in beekeeping”
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“Most problems are imaginary and most solutions are illusions"--Michael Bush”
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“You can’t get the right answer when you are asking the wrong question."--Michael Bush”
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“Here, then, is the short answer to every beekeeping issue. Give them the resources to resolve the problem and let them. If you can’t give them the resources, then limit the need for the resources."--Michael Bush”
― Michael Bush

“There are few solutions as universal in their application and their success, than adding a frame of open brood from another hive every week for three weeks. It is a virtual panacea for any queen issues. It gives the bees the pheromones to suppress laying workers. It gives them more workers coming in during a period where there is no laying queen. It does not interfere if there is a virgin queen. It gives them the resources to rear a queen. It is virtually foolproof and does not require finding a queen or seeing eggs or accurately diagnosing the problem. If you have any issue with queenrightness, no brood, worried that there is no queen, this is the simple solution that requires no worrying, no waiting, no hoping and no guessing. You just give them what they need to resolve the situation. If you have any doubts about the queenrightness of a hive, give them some open brood and sleep well. Repeat once a week for two more weeks if you still aren't sure. By then things will be well on their way to being fine."--Michael Bush”
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