Review: Great starter guide for amateur beekeepers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2012
For someone who doesn't know anything about bees except for what I see on TV, this was an incredibly interesting book on the basics of bee-keeping. The book was packed full of interesting facts about bees that really made me ashamed of how little I knew about them. Some of the most interesting facts that I found in this book were things like:There are over 20,000 species of bees in the world. (I thought there were like 5!)The queen bee can lay over 3,000 eggs per day.Male bees are kicked out and left to die after mating.The book also broke down the many components of beekeeping down into easy to follow and easy to understand terms. Things like choosing the right equipment, bee diseases, managing a hive, and collecting honey were covered. Although I don't plan on becoming a beekeeper, this book would help provide a valuable beginning resource to anyone who wants to get started with. Expert beekeepers may already be familiar with this information presented in this book, but this book can definitely serve as a refresher for them.ProsSimple, easy to understand- As I stated above, the book is a good guide to the basics of beekeeping. The author does a good job of presenting the content in a way that is easy to follow along and really makes the whole beekeeping process seem easier than I expected.Interesting content-Another aspect that I liked was the content, which is packed full of facts that non-beekeepers and amateur beekeepers should be interested in learning.ConsLacks specifics in small areas of the book- The book doesn't provide specifics in some small sections of the book. For example, you are told in the book that you should only use specific types of bees, yet only type is discussed.Lacks pictures- I would have like to see some pictures in the book to make it a little more interesting and helpful. For this kind of content, seeing the content is just as important as reading about it.