Beekeeper
Resources
(Y'all bookmark The Pollination Home Page if you want to come back.
You could be gone a long time!)
Beekeeping Portal Sites:
Apiservices: The Virtual Beekeeping Gallery -A huge site in four languages.
Allen Dick's Home Page Allen, an Albertan beekeeper is one of the smartest in the business; many thought-provoking articles on bee management, Bee List archives and much more.
Barry Birkey's Bee Source, news, forums, equipment plans, worldwide list of suppliers of bees and equipment.
Zachary Huang's Cyberbee a site dedicated to the honeybee, lots of links to researchers
Beehoo: a world beekeeping directory France
The Beekeepers' Home Page on the Internet Hundreds of links
Other Outstanding Web Sites:
Non-English World
Web Sites Alta Vista's Translation Engine
Valuable Sites that do not provide an English translation
Enlaces de Apicultura Espania Extensive list of Spanish language beekeeping sites
Beekeeper Forums:
Bee List
A worldwide list of other bee mailing lists by Allen Dick
Beenet in Europe
Irish Beekeeping List To join: Send a blank e-mail to irishbeekeeping-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
Newsgroup: sci.agriculture.beekeeping how to subscribe, by Allen Dick
America Online and Compuserve have beekeeper bulletin boards that can be found in the hobby sections.Entomology Discussion Groups post messages, links, and images, dedicated forum for carpenter bees (under Hymenoptera Conference) and a dedicated conference on Apiculture
Bombus List to subscribe to a list on bumblebees, send an e-mail to: listserv@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU with the message: subscribe BOMBUS-L <your name>
Beekeeping Periodicals:
Practical Tips:
Calculating Costs of Pollination Service Part of a comprehensive western Australia pollination manual
How to buy bees
Protect Yourself When Buying Used Equipment
Can I Keep Bees in Suburbia?
A Guide to Managing Bees for Crop Pollination
Urban Beekeeping Australia
Africanized Bees: Arizona Lesson Plans
Database of northern USA bee forage plants Ohio
Images for bee disease identification Hawaii
Control Varroa mites without chemicals Holland
Beekeeper Library Health effects of bee products Russia
Late winter/early spring is the most dangerous time for your bees. Starvation lurks to catch the complaisant beekeeper.
Odds n' Ends
Washboarding Did you ever see this mysterious bee-havior? 2 slides.
Hiving an Easy Swarm - a Brief Slide Show 5 slides.
A swarm that came to me while I was making nucs Can't get any easier than this!
Transferring Wild Bees into a Hive - a Slide Show
Watch a short movie clip of dancing swarm scouts The dance is so fast that the bee is a blur! (Note: You must have software that can open MPG files)
Listen to young queens piping (Note: You must have a computer that can open sound files)
Beekeeping in the digital age Tom Sanford's articles on electronic beekeeping
Exploitation of the Male Gender: Learn about this chauvinism of the bees at Wayne's World
Bees & Equipment for Sale: Classified ads Our Own Buy and Sell Page
Barry Birkey's Page: Go to the Exhange
Allen Dick's Classified Ads
Morris Weaver: Broker of bees and bee equipment
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