Beekeeping: Getting Your Bees Through The Winter

by David Burns

Certified Master Beekeeper, David Burns, has written a short and compact guide on one of our most pressing problems in beekeeping today, getting honey bees to survive the winter. Written so that even a beginner can understand, David has thoroughly researched this subject, breaking it down in understandable terms for both the new or experienced beekeeper. This book was compiled from his very popular Getting Your Bees Through The Winter course that he offers every fall at the training center at Long Lane Honey Bee Farms. This book goes into the details of how to prepare your hive for winter, addressing such subjects as when and how to feed honey bees, the pros and cons of winter wrapping hives, reducing the spread of honey bee viruses, increasing young bee populations in the fall, testing and controlling varroa mites, wind breaks, spring and winter feeding solutions and more.

30 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 9, 2015

Reviews

[Edward Butler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Winterizing Bee Hives

Very helpful information for making sure your bees survive northern winters, and what's more keeping them healthy from varoa mites.

[PAUL KERCH · Rating 5 out of 5]

I needed this.

Excellent. I learned a lot. Rather, I re-learned things in a sensible package. Fall care and feeding lesson was particularly well done. Write more tutorials please.

[kenneth h ramage · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good content and organization. Should be read by all beginning new-bees.

Lessons from experienced are worth the time and money that can be passed on to the rest of us folk.