Reading
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"So work the honey bees,Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
William Shakespeare
Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry V, act I, scene 2
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Drawing by Noah Macey, age 9, Atlanta.
For Children:
Animal Close Up Series, The Bee.
Chang, Andrea, When the Bees Fly Home.
Cole, Joanna & Degen, Bruce, The Magic School Bus, Inside a Bee Hive, Scholastic Inc. 1998.
Else, George, Insects & Spiders, Barnes & Noble, 2003.
Green, Dr. Jen, Insect Societies, Lorenz Books, 2002.
Julivert, Angels, The Fascinating World of Bees, Barrons. 1991.
Lally, Soingne, A Hive for the Honeybee.
Micucci, Charles, The Life and Times of the Honeybee, Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Norden, Dr. Beth B., The Bee, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, Inc., 1991
Wolf, Ferida, Watch Out For Bears, Random House, 1999.
Helpful books for Beginning Beekeepers:
Adams, John F., Beekeeping, The Gentle Craft, Winwood Press, 1972.
Bee Pollinators in Your Garden, American Association of Professional Apiculturists, Tech. Bulletin, No. 2, 1999.
Blackiston, Howlan, Beekeeping for Dummies, Hungry Minds, Inc., 2002.
Bonney, Richard E., Hive Management, A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers, Garden Way, 1990.
Delaplane, Keith S., First Lessons in Beekeeping, Dadant & Sons, 2007.
Delaplane, Keith S., Honey Bees and Beekeeping, A Year in the Life of an Apiary, 2nd Edition, The University of Georgia, 1993.
Ellis, Hattie, Sweetness and Light, Harmony Books,2004.
Heinrich, Bernd, Winter World, The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, Ecco, Harper Collins, 2003.
Longwood, William, The Queen Must Die, 1985.
Ransome, Hilda M., The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, Dover Publications, 2004.
Taylor, Richard, The Joys of Beekeeping, Linden Books, 1984.
Taylor, Richard, The Best of Bee Talk, A. I. Root Co., 1988
Taylor, Richard, The How-To-Do-It of Beekeeping, Linden Books, 1999.
More Technical
Caron, Dewey M., Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Wicwas Press, 1999.
Crane, Eva, The Archaeology of Beekeeping, Duckworth, 1983.
Graham, Joe M. ed., The Hive and the Honey Bee, Dadant & Sons, 2003.
Webster, Thomas and Caron, Dewey, Observation Hives, How to Set Up and Use a Window to the World of Honey Bees, A. I. Root Company, 1999.
Wilson, Edward O., The Insect Societies, 1971 and 2008.
For Lovers of Honey Bees
Buchmann, Stephen, Letters From The Hive, Bantam Dell, 2005.
Hubbell, Sue, A Book of Bees, Ballentine Books, 1988.
Hubbell, Sue, Broadsides from the Other Orders, Random Books, 1993.
Hubbell, Sue, Waiting for Aphrodite, Houghton Mifflin Co.,1999.
Whynott, Douglas, Following the Bloom, Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penquin, 1991.
Useful Journals and Magazines:
American Bee Journal, Hamilton, IL.
Bee Culture, Medina, OH.