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The Australian Beekeeping Manual by Robert Owen (Hardcover, 2015)

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The Australian Beekeeping Manual is the most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia. There are also in-depth chapters on the lifecycle of the honey bee, extracting honey, creating a bee-friendly garden, entering honey in competitions, pests and diseases, native bees, and rearing queens.

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The book is aimed at both the novice and experienced beekeeper in Australia and explains in detail the steps required to manage colonies of bees. Supported by over 350 photographs and drawings, each action to be performed is explained in detail with photographs showing the steps as well as the final result. Many potential beekeepers are unclear about the equipment they need to buy and how to obtain their first colony of bees. The first chapters in the book explain in detail the equipment needed as well as equipment that may be useful later on as their confidence and experience grows. The chapter 'Your First Bees' explains how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden, and the basics of colony management. In addition to chapters on keeping bees, there are detailed chapters on the life cycle of the honey bee, extracting honey, the bee-friendly garden, entering honey in competitions, native bees and rearing queens. The result is a comprehensive manual that includes material not available in other Australian, North American or European books and is the ultimate Australian reference source.

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Publisher
Exisle Publishing
ISBN-13
9781921966880
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216866365

Product Key Features

Subject
Science
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
The Australian Beekeeping Manual
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Author
Robert Owen
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
242 mm
Item Width
184 mm

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Australia
Title_Author
Robert Owen

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item 1 Lonely Planet Food Lovers Guide to the World (Hardback)
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item 2 3RD EDITION The Australian Beekeeping Manual By Robert Owen plus Free Hive Tool
AU $55.00
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item 3 The Australian Beekeeping Manual By Robert Owen 2nd Edition
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5 out of 5 stars
by franklandriver1...14 Jun, 2018
Top favourable review
Practical manual for both the beginner and experienced apiarist
Excellent information about keeping bees in Australia, great colour photos and easy to follow text.
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3 out of 5 stars
by suspend626 Jul, 2018
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One of the few books that focus on Australian conditions, but not well organised.
Good quality book with lots of colour photographs. Lots of terms used without them being defined first. If a novice wants to learn about this topic, it does not help to launch into pages of explanations that use terms that the industry might be quite familiar with, but not the newcomer. For example, "swarming" turns out to be the act of bees actually leaving the hive. I thought the word swarm represented a collection of bees. There are many more terms used that do not even get defined in the Glossary. Not the best way to learn for the rank beginner.
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5 out of 5 stars
by takani104 Jan, 2019
Australian Beekeepers Manual
This book is my foundation book and has everything I need to know about beekeeping in Australia. I could not recommend this book high enough 10 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
by gallifrey-prime10 Nov, 2018
Great Read
What a great read - enough detail to stimulate your brain yet easy on they eye and is simple to skim.
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5 out of 5 stars
by fishncampdosh27 Jun, 2020
The Bee Resource Manual
Excellent resource on Australian bee keeping from starting through to global diseases, and hive construction in between. Well worth the $40 expenditure and to keep if the colony goes pear-shaped down the track in trying to fix it. Cheers.....mike
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item 1 Lonely Planet Food Lovers Guide to the World (Hardback)

item 2 3RD EDITION The Australian Beekeeping Manual By Robert Owen plus Free Hive Tool

item 3 The Australian Beekeeping Manual By Robert Owen 2nd Edition

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Practical manual for both the beginner and experienced apiarist

One of the few books that focus on Australian conditions, but not well organised.

Australian Beekeepers Manual

Great Read

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