What are Your Favorite Bee-Keeping Books?

[luvin honey]

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!

[buzzbee]

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

[Wynoochee_newbee_guy]

back yard bee keeping is a good book
the best one I like is beekeeping for dummies very helpfull.

[kedgel]

THE HIVE AND THE HONEY BEE by Langstroth (THE Langstroth) published by Dadant.

[1reb]

beekeeping for dumbies

[Michael Bush]

>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/

[luvin honey]

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?

[Buz Green]

How about Abbe (Emil) Warre's "Beekeeping For All".
Very informative read about natural beekeeping and you can download it from the 'net.

[riverrat]

I like xyz of bee culture and bee keeping in the midwest. I also like the OlD books written in the 1800's

[Bee-Bop]

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

[luvin honey]

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?

[NasalSponge]

The How To Do It Book of Beekeeping  Richard Taylor