Doomsday Defense

Book · 1853

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee

by L. L. Langstroth

Historical text. Bee diseases and pests (varroa mites above all) have changed beekeeping since 1853. Use a current guide for disease management.

Rev. Lorenzo Langstroth’s discovery of “bee space”, the gap bees leave open rather than filling with comb, made the removable-frame hive possible, and almost every modern hive descends from it. This first edition covers the queen, drones and workers, comb and propolis, hive design, swarming, enemies, feeding, honey and pasturage.

More in beekeeping.

Author
L. L. Langstroth
Published
1853, Hopkins, Bridgman & Company
Topics
Beekeeping
Rights
Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
Transcription
Project Gutenberg eBook #24583

Contents

24 sections
  1. Advertisement
  2. Introduction — Chapter I
  3. Chapter II
  4. Chapter III (part 1 of 3)
  5. Chapter III (part 2 of 3)
  6. Chapter III (part 3 of 3)
  7. Chapter IV — Comb
  8. Chapter V — Propolis, or "Bee-glue."
  9. Chapter VI — Pollen, or Bee-bread
  10. Chapter VII — On the Advantages Which Ought to Be Found in an Improved Hive
  11. Chapter VIII
  12. Chapter IX — Ventilation of the Hive
  13. Chapter X — Natural Swarming, and Hiving of Swarms
  14. Chapter X — Artificial Swarming (part 1 of 3)
  15. Chapter X — Artificial Swarming (part 2 of 3)
  16. Chapter X — Artificial Swarming (part 3 of 3)
  17. Chapter XI — The Bee-moth, and Other Enemies of Bees. Diseases of Bees (part 1 of 2)
  18. Chapter XI — The Bee-moth, and Other Enemies of Bees. Diseases of Bees (part 2 of 2)
  19. Chapter XII — Loss of the Queen
  20. Chapter XIII
  21. Chapter XIV — Robbing
  22. Chapter XV — Directions for Feeding Bees
  23. Chapter XVI — Honey. Pasturage. Overstocking
  24. Chapter XVII

Start reading →