A Field Guide to Honey Bees and Their Maladies

A Field Guide to Honey Bees and Their Maladies is a comprehensive resource featuring 100 full-color photographs to help beekeepers recognize the symptoms of common honey bee ailments. Topics include pests such as varroa and tracheal mites, hive beetles, and bee lice, as well as wildlife hive predators such as bears, mice, and skunks. Additional sections cover diseases such as American and European foulbrood, nosema, and Colony Collapse Disorder. Simple cultural control methods, such as the use of hardware cloth, applying cinnamon, and keeping colonies elevated away from predators, are also discussed.

The book is spiral bound and printed on durable 4-by-8 stock.