Description: This listing is for the brilliant inserts that go into our Bee Craft Apiary Guide Binder. We also sell the binders by themselves (empty), or bundled together with all these inserts at a discounted rate - please see our other listings. All our apiary guides and record cards below are designed to fit into our Bee Craft Apiary Guide Binder available separately with pages in suitable material to be wiped clean of honey/propolis after each apiary visit. There are various options available on this listing: Apiary Essentials Beginners Guide Set of 8 double-sided guides covering apiary essentials. These guides are designed specifically to help the beginner beekeeper with some of the basic tasks. The guides cover: Setting up an apiary; Hive choice and bee space; Constructing a flat-pack brood box (and super); Constructing a flat-pack floor; Construction a flat-pack roof; Frames and foundation; Obtaining bees; Essential equipment and its care. Colony Life Cycle A double sided card to help you recognise the different stages in the honey bee life cycle with excellent photographs of all the different stages of brood. This includes the egg, larva, sealed brood, including worker cells, drone cells and queen cells. Brood Disease Recognition Guides A set of 3 double-sided cards giving clear field recognition guides for:American Foul BroodEuropean Foul BroodMinor Brood Diseases (sac brood, bald brood, chalk brood and drone brood in worker cells)Each Guide gives a description of healthy brood and then describes the particular disease(s). Photographs illustrate various stages of the disease(s) to aid recognition. Advice is given on the actions to be taken should the disease(s) be suspected. Integrated Pest Management Guides A set of 5 guides covering Varroa destructor, its recognition and control.Varroa biology: monitoring for mite populationsControlling varroa mite numbers: chemical control, biotechnical control, synthetic pyrethroids & apiguardDrone brood removal, open-mesh floors, queen trapping & artificial swarmBiotechnical Control: drone brood removal, open mesh floors, queen trapping & artifical swarmThe shook swarm technique Swarming and Swarm Control Guides Set of 5 double-sided guides to recognise and deal with swarming.These apiary guides offer a concise guide to swarm control. The guides cover:Understanding the swarming processSwarm causes, prevention and controlThe nucleus method or swarm controlSwarm control without finding the queenCollecting and hiving a swarm Apiary Record Cards with Instructions How to keep those vital records of your bees and their management.This apiary guide can be used to record management techniques and when disease inspection and varroa treatments are applied. The Bee Craft apiary record pack is suitable for an apiary of up to five colonies. It includes an instruction sheet, an example and facilities for recording veterinary medicines, five queen and colony record cards and five check lists. Pest Management Guides How to recognise the Asian Hornet, Small Hive Beetle and Tropilaelaps sp.Two double-sided cards. 5 x Apiary Record Cards Five queen & colony record cards for use in the apiary.These are designed to enable you to record queen and colony records on one side with easy to use check lists on the reverse. They are the same as the cards included in the main apiary record pack although do not come with any notes on their use. Published and sold here by Bee Craft. BeeCraft is the UK's best-selling monthly beekeeping magazine. Known as ‘The Independent Voice of British Beekeeping’, BeeCraft is written for beekeepers at all levels of experience. The magazine contains up-to-date articles on beekeeping practice, equipment, features from across the UK and around the world, and clear presentations of the latest bee science and research.With 48 full-colour A4 pages, the magazine is available in both printed and online editions suitable for viewing on desktops, pads and smartphones. www.bee-craft.comBe sure to check out our other listings for the full range of books and related materials we publish - or, check out our website!
Price: 2.25 GBP
Location: Tonbridge
End Time: 2024-08-30T16:51:47.000Z
Shipping Cost: 23.54 GBP
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Type: Textbook
Format: Ring/Wire Bound
Language: English
Publication Name: BeeCraft
Author: Bee Craft
Publisher: Bee Craft
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Beekeeping
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Color: Insert: Apiary Essentials Beginners Guide
Price: 9.25 GBP
Available Quantity: 257
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Color: Insert: Colony Life Cycle
Price: 2.25 GBP
Available Quantity: 17
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Color: Insert: Swarming & Swarm Control
Price: 6.25 GBP
Available Quantity: 11
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Color: Insert: Brood Disease Recognition Guide
Price: 4 GBP
Available Quantity: 31
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Color: Insert: Integrated Pest Management
Price: 6.25 GBP
Available Quantity: 30
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Color: Insert: Pest Management
Price: 4.25 GBP
Available Quantity: 33
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Color: Insert: Apiary Record Cards w/Instructions
Price: 3.5 GBP
Available Quantity: 106
Quantity Sold: 1
Color: Insert: Apiary Record Cards (x5)
Price: 3.5 GBP
Available Quantity: 25
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Color: All Inserts (incl. Beginners Guide)
Price: 35.75 GBP
Available Quantity: 50
Quantity Sold: 1
Color: All Inserts (no Beginners Guide)
Price: 26.5 GBP
Available Quantity: 50
Quantity Sold: 0
