Hello--I would greatly appreciate a list of titles of your favorites. I would especially appreciate books that talk about:
bee behavior
topbar hives
"organic" beekeeping
feral bees
swarm lures
Thanks so much!
If you, like stories about beekeeping get this book:
Following the Bloom
by: Douglas Whynott
It's a pretty good read for men and women.
http://www.amazon.com/Following-Bloom-Douglas-Whynott/dp/1585422800
back yard bee keeping is a good book
the best one I like is beekeeping for dummies very helpfull.
THE HIVE AND THE HONEY BEE by Langstroth (THE Langstroth) published by Dadant.
beekeeping for dumbies
>bee behavior
The Hive and Honey Bee Revisited is nice. The Wisdom of the Hive is good but a difficult read. Not the kind of book you just run through. More the kind of book you read a chapter and digest a while.
>topbar hives
The only one I know of is §¤«£¿æ's.
>"organic" beekeeping
The only one I know of is my web site...
www.bushfarms.com
>feral bees
Tom Seeley has done a lot of work. The Cornell site, I think has some info.
>swarm lures
Same as above... Tom Seeley has done a lot of work. The Cornell site, I think has some info.
I like a lot of the old ones. A year in an out apiary by G.M. Doolittle is great. Huber's New Observations on the Natural History of Bees is great. A lot of my favorites are here:
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesoldbooks.htm
Others are here:
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/
Thanks, everyone! Keep them coming! I'm thinking of a crackling winter fire, a small box of honeycomb to chew on and good beek books :)
MB, unfortunately, the recommended book on topbar hives is gobbledygook in translation, but would it happen to be The B a r e f o o t Beekeeper?
Thanks again!
ETA: Could anybody help me understand why the last book I listed above came through in some weird code? And also why one of Michael's did?
How about Abbe (Emil) Warre's "Beekeeping For All".
Very informative read about natural beekeeping and you can download it from the 'net.
I like xyz of bee culture and bee keeping in the midwest. I also like the OlD books written in the 1800's
I will second Riverrat on;
Beekeeping in the Midwest,(revised) by Elbert R. Jaycox. U.of Ill. Press, 1976
Practical Beekeeping, Enoch Thompson & R.M. Griffin, Gardenway Press, 1977
Beekeeping -A practical Guide, Richard E. Bonney, Storey Pub., 1993
Hive Managment, Richard E. Bonney, Storey Pub., 1990
Of course the two Bibles of Beekeeping; ABC-XYZ & Dadant
Bee-Bop
Great! Some I have read, many others I haven't. Looking forward to ordering them from my library and digging in!
Any others I should get?
The How To Do It Book of Beekeeping Richard Taylor