Science Reference Guides
SELECTED TITLES
Buchman, Stephen L., and Banning Repplier. Letters from the
hive: an intimate history of bees, honey, and humankind. New
York, Bantam Books, 2005. 275 p.
SF523.3.B83 2005
Delaplane, Keith S., and Daniel F. Mayer. Crop pollination
by bees. Wallingford, Eng., New York, CABI, c2000. 344 p.
Bibliography: p. 297-331.
QK926.D35 2000
Ellis, Hattie. Sweetness and light: the mysterious history
of the honeybee. New York, Harmony Books, c2004. 243 p. Bibliography:
p. 229-233.
QL568.A6E68 2004
Flottum, Kim. The backyard beekeeper: an absolute beginner’s
guide to keeping bees in your yard and garden. Gloucester,
MA, Quarry Books, c2005. 167 p.
SF523.F63 2005
Gould, James L., and Carol Grant Gould. The honey bee. New
York, Scientific American Library; Distributed by W. H. Freeman,
c1998. 239 p.
QL568.A6G68 1988
Horn, Tammy. Bees in America: how the honey bee shaped a
nation. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
333 p.
Bibliography: p. 301-316.
SF524.5.H67 2005
Langstroth, L. L. Practical treatise on the hive and the
honeybee: the classic beekeeper’s manual. Mineola,
NY, Dover Publications Inc., 2004. 409 p.
Originally published as A practical treatise on the hive
and
the honeybee. Philadelphia, J. B.. Lipincott & Company, 1878.
SF523.L286 2004
Sammataro, Diana, and Alphonse Avitabile. The beekeeper’s
handbook. 3rd ed. Ithaca, NY, Comstock Pub. Associates,
c1998. 190 p.
Includes bibliographies.
SE523.S35 1998
Whynott, Douglas. Following the bloom: across America with
the migratory beekeepers. New York, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
2004. 246 p.
Bibliography: p. 241-246.
Originally published in Harrisburg, PA, by Stackpole Books,
1991.
SF524.5.W48 2004
Wilson, Bee. The hive: the story of the honeybee and us.
London, John Murray, c2004. 308 p.
Bibliography: p. 286-296.
SF523.3.W54 2004
Winston, Mark L. The biology of the honey bee. Cambridge,
MA, Harvard University Press, 1987. 281 p.
Bibliography: p. 227-267.
QL568.A6W56 1987
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SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Check, Erica. Pollinators in peril. Nature, v. 443, Oct.
26 2006: 893.
Q1.N2
Cox-Foster, Diana. Mysterious Bee-havior. Science, v.
315, Mar. 16 2007: 1473.
Q1.S35
Harrison, John F. Environmental physiology of the invasion of
the Americas by Africanized honeybees. Integrative and comparative
biology, v. 46, Dec. 2006: 1110-1122.
QL1.A448
Klein, Alexandra-Maria, and others. Importance of pollinators
in changing landscapes for world crops. Proceedings of the
Royal Society: Biological sciences, v. 274, Feb. 7 2007: 303-313.
QH301.P7415
Milius, Susan. Most bees live alone. Science news, v.
171, Jan. 6 2007: 11-13.
Q1.S76
Weinstock, George M., and others. Insights into social insects
from the genome of the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Nature,
v. 443, Oct. 26 2006: 931-949.
Q1.N2
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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
Bees and Pollination: a collection of links from
Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research Service
(ARS)
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/agnic/bee/
What’s the Buzz on Planting a Bee Garden,
by Stephen Buchman, Tucson ARS
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/na/bgardn.html
The Hive and the Honeybee: Selections from the
E.F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Mann Library, Cornell University
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Agricultural
Research Service, USDA
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=53420300
Honeybee, from Great Plains Nature Center
http://www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm
Honeybee Genome Project, at Baylor College of
Medicine
http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/honeybee/
Honeybee Information, from Texas A&M University
http://honeybee.tamu.edu/
HoneyBeeNet, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Wayne Esaias’ site for learning about the effects of climate
change on bees and ecosystems
http://honeybeenet.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mid-Atlantic Apiculture
A regional group focused on pest management crisis in beekeeping
industry
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/
The Pollinator Partnership
Learn more and get involved in pollinator protection
http://www.pollinator.org/
Project Budburst
A national phenology network field campaign for citizen scientists
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/
Status of Pollinators in North America, a publication
from the Committee on the Status of Pollinators in North America,
National Research Council
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11761
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Compiled by Alison P Kelly, Science Reference,
Library of Congress, and
Wayne Esaias, Ocean Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center
April 2007
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