Beekeeping For Dummies UK Edition -- About the Authors -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organised -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Hooked on Honey Bees -- Chapter 1: To Bee or Not to Bee? -- Discovering the Benefits of Beekeeping -- Determining Your Beekeeping Potential -- Overcoming Fear of Stings -- Chapter 2: Life Inside the Honey Bee Hive -- Basic Body Parts -- The Amazing Language of Bees -- Dividing Honey Bees into Three Castes -- The Honey Bee Life-Cycle -- Part II: Starting Your Adventure -- Chapter 3: Locating Your Hive -- Getting Over 'Buzz Off!': Consulting Family and Neighbours -- Location, Location, Location: Where to Keep Your Hives -- Knowing When to Start Your Adventure -- Chapter 4: Stocking Up on Basic Beekeeping Equipment -- Finding Out about the Modified National Hive -- Knowing the Basic Parts of the Hive -- Ordering Hive Parts -- Adding on Feeders -- Stocking Up on Your Personal Beekeeping Equipment -- Covering Up with Bee-Proof Clothing -- Really Helpful Accessories -- Chapter 5: Obtaining and Hiving Your Bees -- Determining the Kind of Bee You Want -- Deciding How to Obtain Your Initial Bee Colony -- Meeting and Greeting: The Day Your Bees Arrive -- Buzzing with Excitement: Putting Your Bees into the Hive -- Part III: Looking Inside Your Hive -- Chapter 6: Opening Your Hive -- Setting an Inspection Schedule -- Preparing to Visit Your Hive -- Opening the Hive -- The Hive's Open! Now What? -- Chapter 7: What to Look for when You're Inspecting -- Exploring Basic Inspection Techniques: Examining a Full Colony -- Establishing a Colony from a Nucleus -- Starting your Colony with a Package of Bees -- Chapter 8: Your Work throughout the Seasons -- Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer -- Falling Leaves Point to Autumn Tasks.

Clustering in a Winter Wonderland -- Spring Is in the Air: Starting Your Second Season -- Part IV: Common Problems and Simple Solutions -- Chapter 9: Heading Off Potential Problems -- Avoiding Absconding -- Where Did the Queen Go? -- Avoiding Chilled Brood -- Dealing with the Dreaded Robbing Frenzies -- Ridding Your Hive of the Laying Worker Phenomenon -- Preventing Pesticide Poisoning -- Chapter 10: Treating Diseases and Considering Colony Collapse Disorder -- Medicating when Necessary -- Knowing the Big Six Bee Diseases -- Shedding Some Light on Colony Collapse Disorder and Vanishing Hives -- Exploring Potential Causes of CCD -- A Final Word -- Chapter 11: Buzz Off! Dealing with Honey Bee Pests -- Preventing Parasitic Mites -- Wax Moths -- Ants, Ants and More Ants -- Keeping Out Mice -- Dealing with Birds that Have a Taste for Bees -- Pest Control in a Nutshell -- Chapter 12: Raising Your Own Queens -- Why Raising Queens Makes You Proud -- Accentuating the Positive: Choosing Good Traits -- What Makes a Queen a Queen -- Creating Demand: Making a Queenless Nuc -- Queen Rearing: The Miller Method -- Using an Artificial Swarm to Raise Queens -- The Doolittle Method: Grafting -- Trying Out the Jenter System -- Finding a Home for Your Queens -- Part V: Sweet Rewards -- Chapter 13: Getting Ready for the Golden Harvest -- Choosing Extracted, Comb, Chunk or Soft-Set Honey -- Using the Right Equipment for the Job -- Planning Your Honey Harvest Set-Up -- Labelling and Selling Your Honey -- Chapter 14: Honey, I'm Home: Harvest Time -- Knowing When to Harvest -- Getting the Bees Out of the Honey Supers -- Food of the Gods: Honey Extraction -- Cleaning Up after Extracting -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 15: Ten Fun Things to Do with Bees -- Starting an Observation Hive -- Planting Flowers for Your Bees -- Brewing Mead: The Nectar of the Gods.

Getting Creative with Propolis -- Making Candles and Polish from Beeswax -- Beauty and the Bees -- Getting up Close with a Microscope -- Chapter 16: Ten Frequently Asked Questions about Bee Behaviour -- Chapter 17: Ten Delicious Honey Recipes -- Honey Lemonade with Frozen Fruit Cubes -- Honey-Mustard Roasted Potatoes -- Banana and Honey Milkshake -- Spiced Tea -- Apricot Honey Bread -- Honey Cake -- Honey Herb Salad Dressing -- Honey Barbecue Baste -- Grilled Honey Garlic Pork Chops -- Linguini with Honey Prawns -- Appendix A: Helpful Resources -- Honey Bee Websites -- Bee Organisations and Conferences -- Bee Journals and Magazines -- Beekeeping Supplies and Equipment -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Index.