Recommended Bee-Related Resources

David M. Stone, Teaching Associate, University Laboratory High School, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.

Books

Bishop, H. (2005). Robbing the bees: a biography of honey, the sweet liquid gold that seduced the world. New York, NY: Free Press.

Crane, Eva. (1990). Bees and beekeeping: Science, Practice and World Resources. Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Associates.

Hooper, T. (1976). Guide to Bees and Honey. Emauss, PA: Rodale Press.

Jean-Propst, P. (1994). Apiculture: know the bee and the apiary. Andover, Hampshire, U.K.: Oxfod and IBH Publishing Co.

Thompkins, E. & Griffith, R. (1977). Practical beekeeping. Charlotte, VT: Garden Way Publishing.

Winston, M. (1992). Killer bees: the Africanized honey bee in the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.


Online Audio Interviews

NPR Diane Rehm Show interview with Holley Bishop, author of Robbing the bees: a biography of honey, the sweet liquid gold that seduced the world. March 30, 2005. <http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/05/03/30.php>

Science Friday interview with Stephen Buchmann, author of Letters from the hive: an intimate history of bees, honey, and humankind. June 17, 2005. <http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Jun/hour2_061705.html>


Videotapes

Tales From the Hive. Dir. Herbert Habersack. NOVA. 2000. Videocassette.


Web Sites

General

Beetography, http://www.beetography.com/ Top quality bee-related digital images of bees. Thanks to Zach Huang for granting us permission to use many of these images on this web site!

Bee Information on the World Wide Web, http://www.honeybee.com/index.htm

BeeHoo the beekeeping directory - Beekeeping - beekeeping suppliers, apiculture, http://www.beehoo.com/

Beekeeper's Web Links, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Beekeeping/weblinks.htm

Beemaster's Beekeeping Course Home Page, http://www.beemaster.com/honeybee/beehome.htm

BEES-ONLINE, http://www.bees-online.com/

CyberBeeNet (Biology, Research, Beekeeping), http://www.cyberbee.net/

InGenBees, http://www.ingenbees.com/

NCBI Honey Bee Genome Resources, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/guide/bee/

The Pollination Home Page, http://pollinator.com/

 

Region-based sites with lots of general information!

Alaska HoneyBee Home Page, http://balder.prohosting.com/~starrier/

Eastern Apicultural Society of North America, Inc., http://www.easternapiculture.org/

HoozierBuzz.com: The Official Website of the Indiana State Beekeepers Association, http://www.hoosierbuzz.com/

Illinois State Beekeepers Association, http://www.isba.us/

Indiana Beekeeping, http://indianabeekeeper.goshen.edu/

International Bee Research Association, http://www.ibra.org.uk/shop/erol.html

MAAREC - Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium, http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/

Midnite Bee: Beekeepers Home, http://www.mainebee.com/

 

Images

MicroAngela's Electron Microscopic Images, http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bemf/microangela/

Scanning Electron Micrographs of Insects, http://www.bath.ac.uk/ceos/Insects4.html

A Scanning Electron Microscope Atlas of the Honey Bee, http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/beebook/bee.html

 

Miscellaneous

Africanized Honey Bees on the Move: Lesson Plans, http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/ahbhome.html

B-EYE: The world through the eyes of a bee, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/O1999-Sep-6/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html


Bee Overview
Bee Anatomy
Life Stages of Bees
Killer Bees (Africanized Bees)
Parasites and Competitors
Bee Products
Recommended Bee Resources

Created 6/25/05. Last modified 12/27/07.