Australian Beekeeping Agskills

Bee Agskills provides a basic guide to some of the skills and practices of bee production. The book contains step by step instructions, diagrams, and full-colour pictures.

By NSW DPI 114 Pages

Instructions on how to assemble beehives, flats, catching a wild bee swarm, extracting honey, maintaining your hive, protective your hive from pests, working safely with bees, identifying flora for honey production, legal considerations and basic opening and hive inspections.

Some of the skills included are:

• Using a bee smoker
• Opening a hive
• Requeening
• Removing and extracting honey
• Bee health and pests
• Buying equipment