Customer Reviews
Simply the Best Bee Keeping Book - By: Andrew T. Smith, 04 Aug 2008 
It is the Bible as far as I am concerned. Critically,in places it shows its age, but generally you will not get a better book on Bee Keeping.
So far, excellent! - By: F. E. Filardo, 12 Jul 2008 Nicely written & highly informative by someone who evidently has an immense amount of experience & knowledge & who is happy to share it without ever becoming dogmatic.
I am a beginner to be-keeping & this book is giving me a great combination of directly applicable advice & an overview of how it all works together.
good book for beekeepers in the UK, but slightly out of date - By: S. matthews, 21 May 2007 
the best book on beekeeping i have bought BUT it does give a false impression of how easy, spontaneous & predictable beekeeping is. Only the hands on experience of owning your own hives & keeping your own bees will give you a full insight.
My only other fault with this book was despite the fact it is very extensive & probably the best book on the matket it is slightly out of date, not containing some modern beekeeping methods & although it says it is completly up to date on Varroa, it isnt & for that information the best place to go is the DEFRA website at beebase.csl.gov.uk & look at there PDF about the control of the mite, this is the primary reason I didn't give this book 5 stars.
The chapter at the back labelled "flowers for food" gives an extensive overview of the diffrent forage for the bees & is better than other books I have bought that are designed to address solely the issue of bee forage, & it is worth buying the book just for this chapter alone
In conclusion despite being slightly out of date this is the best book I have found so far on beekeeping & no beekeepers book case is complete without it.
Buy it you won't need another book on bees - By: , 27 May 2005 However, one of my beekeeping friends who has been keeping bees for some 20 plus years, refers to this book as his bible, he frequently disagrees with it, for example he frowns on the process of dividing the brood to increase the laying rate of the queen & thus expand the colony.
Something you just have to live with I suppose.
Bridgend Beekeepers Recommend Hooper - By: , 02 Oct 1999 There are many good beekeeping books on the market but this is the one that Bridgend Beekeepers recommend to all its new members.If you are looking for a good book to get started & still be useful to you when your beekeeping knowledge has increased then this is the one to buy.
