Queen Rearing for the Growth & Management of Small Apiaries

by Joseph Hébert, Matthew Hebert (Illustrator), Kat Hébert (Editor)

You, the backyard/hobbyist beekeeper, can rear your own queens no matter how small your apiary, and in "Queen Rearing for the Growth & Management of Small Apiaries" Dr. Hébert will teach you how. Starting with a simple split, you will learn all you need to know and color photographs will show you exactly what to expect to see in your own hives.

Whether you've just started out with a single hive or you've already grown to many hives, whether you're looking to grow your apiary even larger or just manage and maintain it's current size, if you want to learn to rear your own honeybee queens from and for your own beestock this book is for you.

Of course, having knowledge is one thing, but having the physical skill is quite another. So you will also learn how to develop the physical skill needed to put your new found knowledge into practice. With color close up photographs you will learn how to tell which larvae are suitable for making queens and which ones aren't. Then you will learn how develop the physical skill to graft them. Believe it or not, grafting larvae is not only the simplest and most efficient means of rearing multiple queens anyone has come up with to date, it is also a surprisingly simple skill to learn. If you can write with a pen and paper, you're practically already there.

Finally, you'll be given the details of how to make the equipment and tools necessary to the task (should you opt to do so over buying them). In short, if you're a backyard/hobbyist beekeeper and you want to rear your own queens, this book is all you need to get started.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2017