"This guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by illustrations for setting up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony of bees and a generous supply of honey. This fifth edition has undergone substantial changes that reflect the most recent findings of scientists and beekeepers"-- Provided by publisher.

Understanding bees -- Colony activities -- Beekeeping equipment -- Obtaining and preparing for bees -- Working bees -- Package bees -- Feeding bees -- Winter/Spring management -- Summer/Fall management -- Queens and queen rearing -- Special management problems -- Products of the hive -- Pathogens and parasites of honey bees -- Pests of honey bees -- Pollination.