KEY POINTS

• The book is aimed at hobby and professional beekeepers that are interested in learning about pests and diseases and their management.
• Brings beekeepers up to date on recent advances in the identification, and treatment of pathogens. The book is intended to be readable by the non-specialist and to provide much information not available outside academic journals.
• Rather than just describing the signs of a pathogen and suitable treatment, the authors have worked to explain how bees become infected and how individual pathogens make bees sick. The chapter on epidemiology provides the reader with a higher-level view of disease identification and management by looking at them at the country or regional level.