Increase Essentials
I just received your book in Satuday's mail and have read it completely. It is an outstanding addition to beekeeping literature. It reminds me of the style of Dr. C.C. Miller and I enjoy the information and I will be turning to it often. I will also recommend it to beekeepers. It is a book which can be read over and over and each time, something new emerges. I liked your appproach to include all beekeepers from beginners to commercial. I will put this book on the must have list on my web site. --Dana Stahlman, Blacklick, OhioJust finished reading your new book and wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it. It affirmed many of the things I am doing and provided new ideas for improving our bee farm. Your articles are a favorite of mine as you have the rare expertise of combining academic and real life experience that rings true in your writing and opinions. I look forward to seeing you at future bee meetings. I will be  recommending your book to bee clubs as I visit them. --Dan Conlon, Warm Colors Apiary, Deerfield, MAIf you have been waiting for a bee book to help you become a better, more successful beekeeper, the new paperback INCREASE ESSENTIALS by Larry Connor is for you. This is not a book to put on your bee book bookshelf. Increase Essentials is about THE major challenge of beekeeping -- starting new colonies that yield strong, healthy, and productive hives.  Increase Essentials includes both a  cook-book  approach to setting up nucs and handling new colonies but additionally includes easy-to-understand bee biology basics of establishing new colonies. If you already know how to make up nucs that consistently yield productive units then you do not need this book. If however, nucs in your experience are just another colony to manage, then this book should be a MUST-READ so increase beekeeping can be put into practice next bee season. --Professor Dewey M. Caron, University of Delaware in Bee Culture Magazine