Rearing Queen Honey Bees: Second Edition

Good book !! I past it on too my friend in beekeeping meeting!! Thanks again!!

Read it through, then use it as reference book when you are ready to start the process.A very informative book on queen rearing as well as overall hive explanation, yet not too lenghtly.

I'm an experienced beekeeper thinking quite seriously about raising queens this coming spring. I find much of the literature in the world of beekeeping to be quite chatty and rarely to the point. While this book brings up many interesting concepts, the focus of the book meanders.I get the idea of how queens grow.What I'm looking for, and didn't find in this book, is a step-by-step 'recipe' of the process of inducing The Ladies to produce queens.My search continues.

thx all good

Together with Queen Bee: Biology, Rearing and Breeding by David Woodward, a New Zealand breeder, these are the two best books on the market today on rearing queens. David Woodward's book though is better and provides more practical advice in a more readable form.

This is an ok book for a VERY general overview of queen rearing but if you really want to do it for yourself, do not count on this book. There is little of real use in that regard. Stick with the other books on the subject I'd say...

It's the best book I know of on the subject, but that's only because there's not much else. It offers some interesting, random insights, but it's poorly organized and leaves out so much necessary to an understanding of queen rearing. Read it for the haphazard bits of knowledge, but don't expect to draw any cohesive understanding of queen rearing from it.