Splitting Hives & Rearing Queens: Growing & Managing Your Small Apiary

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

From splitting a hive to rearing your own queens from your own beestock, Dr. Hébert teaches you all you need to know to grow and manage the population of your small apiary. Of course, having the 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 to 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 grow and manage the population of your apiary, "Splitting Hives & Rearing Queens" is all you need to get started.

98 pages, Paperback

Published February 5, 2018

Reviews

[Eugene Gourley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical knowledge

I have 1-year experience working with bees so the terms used where not foreign by any means. I plan to reread this 1-2 more times to get even more comfortable with the authors suggestions. Then comes the practice; I got empty frames & look forward to developing some skill before spring comes.

I am always excited to learn new skills & I am confident this is very doable.

[Gail Franks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Splitting hives and rearing queens

This is a very well written directive for beekeepers who want to expand their apiary or prevent swarming. I am a new beekeeper and found this book simple to follow with clear and easily understood instructions. I can only commend the author for a great addition to my beekeeping library.

[Tony Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelleny clear advice


Now to put it into practice

Looking forward ro a productive second year of beekeeping

Hoping for a fine and sunny summe

[Dawn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple and brief

[Jonathan Wayne Luffman · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you wont to learn it in here

Auther open and honest with his own experience. Tells what worked for him and most importantly why you do it.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks for writing this book

A clear and concisely explained method for raising Queens aimed at the backyard beekeeper and using the minimum of equipment

[Ramkumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and well wrotten

Good read for novice beekeeper.
I will follow this book to transfer larvae and hopefully convert them into mated queens, that would be pure delight.

[Zach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great primer on starting to raise queens. I just wish it had some diagrams on the described processes for visual learners.