Ed.Note: this is a new section for The ABK. Bob Gulliford (Editor February, 1991 ñ December, 2007) did include a section in The ABK titled Beginning in Bees, but with the surge in interest beekeeping, I as Editor have decided to try and include a similar section, aimed at assisting the newer beekeeper with advice to make them better beekeepers. There are a number of 'Experts' out there who set themselves up as such after having been beekeepers for a year or two, and they are often putting out misleading and erroneous information. 

I will therefore be trying to draw on the knowledge of beekeepers on man