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The Beekeeper's Handbook
Fourth Edition, June 2011
Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile
With forward by Dewey M. Caron
Adapted from promotional materials:
From the foreword
Beginners will find The Beekeeper s Handbook a joy, and
more seasoned beekeepers will find rereading of benefit
as they continue to master the art and science of bee
colony care. Dewey M. Caron
Praise for the third edition
The Beekeeper's Handbook has guided thousands of
beginning and advanced beekeepers in the how-tos of this
entertaining and profitable pastime. Simply put, it is
the best of the best of beekeeping books. Roger A.
Morse
An updated and expanded volume that goes into ... all
practical aspects of beekeeping. Superbly illustrated.
Northeastern Naturalist
A comprehensive, well-illustrated introduction for
beginners and a valuable reference for the experienced
beekeeper. The book outlines options for each operation
within beekeeping, listing advantages and disadvantages
of each alternative.
AB Bookman s Weekly
The text is presented in a very readable way, and the
diagrams are some of the clearest I have seen for a long
time. Bee Craft
An elegant reference book with beautiful illustrations.
Whole Earth
Since 1973, tens of thousands of first-time and
experienced beekeepers alike have relied on The
Beekeeper's Handbook as the best single-volume guide to
the hobby and profession of beekeeping. Featuring clear
descriptions and authoritative content, this handbook
provides step-by-step directions accompanied by more
than 100 illustrations for setting up an apiary,
handling bees, and working throughout the season to
maintain a healthy colony of bees and a generous supply
of honey. This book explains the various colony care
options and techniques, noting advantages and
disadvantages, so that beekeepers can make the best
choices for their own hives. This fourth edition has
been thoroughly redesigned, expanded, updated, and
revised to incorporate the latest information on Colony
Collapse Disorder, green IPM methods, regional
overwintering protocols, and procedures for handling
bees and managing diseases and pests such as African
honey bees and bee mites. The book explains not only how
but also why each step is
part of the transformative process that results in the
magnificent creation of honey. This essential guide is a
beekeeper s most valuable resource.
Colony Collapse Disorder has renewed our recognition of
the importance of small-scale beekeeping and the
critical role of bees in the production of our food
supply. For the growing number of beekeepers looking to
set up hives for either a rewarding hobby or a
profitable commercial enterprise, this updated and
revised essential how-to guide includes:
step-by-step directions for all stages from setting up
an apiary to harvesting honey;
approximately 100 illustrations featuring techniques,
equipment, and bee biology;
information about how to manage new pests and diseases
including Colony Collapse Disorder;
coverage of new trends and changes in beekeeping
including green IPM techniques and new laws for urban
beekeeping;
the most up-to-date bibliography and list of resources
on the topic; and
a new user-friendly book design that clearly highlights
instructions and other important features.
About the Authors
Diana Sammataro is Research
Entomologist at the USDA-ARS Carl Hayden Honey Bee
Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, where her research
focuses on beneficial microbes and bee nutritional
problems, managing parasitic mites of bees and Colony
Collapse Disorder, and following the pollination of
crops from almonds to apples.
Alphonse Avitabile is a longtime
beekeeper and Emeritus Professor of Biology at the
University of Connecticut, Waterbury. Dewey M. Caron is
a retired Professor and Extension Entomologist in the
Department of Entomology at the University of Delaware.
He is the author of Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping.
Simon
Buxton
The
Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing
Practices of the Bee Masters
(Paperback)
Brooke
Medicine Eagle, author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing:
An exquisitely written, powerful, and important book. It
reveals for the first time a European form of shamanism and
healing magic that arises lucidly and sweetly from the
natural world immediately around us--the extraordinary
details of which we so often overlook. S. R. Harrop,
chairman of the department of anthropology, University of
Kent, England: We search the exotic and distant for
transformative secrets, well-being and healing. But are we
perceptive enough to receive the gifts from the humblest of
our own gardens? No matter. Simon Buxton has walked this
path, from the primordial to the present, and freely grants
us the exquisite treasures contained within The Shamanic
Way of the Bee.
$19
(includes US Media Postage)
Bernd
Heinrich
In a
Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field
(Paperback)
Why
would a grown man chase hornets with a thermometer, paint
whirligig beetles bright red, or track elephants through the
night to fill trash bags with their prodigious droppings?
Some might say--to advance science. Heinrich says--because
it's fun.
Bernd
Heinrich, author of the much acclaimed Bumblebee
Economics, has been playing in the wilds of one
continent or another all his life. In the process, he has
become one of the world's foremost physiological ecologists.
With In a Patch of Fireweed, he will undoubtedly
become one of our foremost writers of popular science.
Part
autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology,
In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating
account of a scientist's life and work. For the author, it
is an opportunity to report not just his results but the
curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that
feed into the process of discovery. For the reader, it is
simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of
an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner workings of
nature. Before his years of research in the woodlands and
deserts of North America, the New Guinea highlands, and the
plains of East Africa, Heinrich had a sense of the wild that
few people in this century can know. He tells the whole
story, from his refugee childhood hidden in a German forest,
eating mice fried in boar fat, to his ongoing research in
the woods surrounding his cabin in Maine.
$31.00
(includes US Media Postage)
Tammy Horn
Beeconomy: What Women and Bees
Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market
"In these
pages, Tammy Horn takes you on a global, first class ride
that explores the geography, history, culture, economy and
influence of the beekeepers of the world who raise both bees
and children--women. Horn has gathered all in one place the
special, shining examples of the thousands of beekeeping
heroines that have been mostly over looked in the histories
written by men. Finally, the women are all in the
light."--Kim Flottum
""This
unique book tells the story of women in the world of honey
bees and beekeeping, from historical times to today and
across every continent."--Francis Ratnieks, Sussex
University" –
""Beeconomy
examines the fasciniating evolution of the relationship
between women and bees around the world... The women
profiled in the book suggest ways of managing careers,
gender discrimination, motherhood, marriage and single
parenting--all while enjoying the community created by women
who work with honeybees." -- Edible Louisville & The
Bluegrass Region" –
""In this
engaging, deeply researched investigation of the interplay
between women and beekeeping, Horn goes beyond looking at
hive-related products like beeswax, honey, and cosmetics,
and explores the potential for beekeeping to change family
dynamics and even the global economy." -- ForeWord Magazine"
--
About the Author
Tammy
Horn was raised with beekeepers on both sides of her family.
She is the director of Coal Country Beeworks, a
multi-service project in which surface mine sites are
reclaimed with pollinator habitat in eastern Kentucky. She
lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
[Hardcover] $32.95 (including
postage in USA)
Tammy
Horn
Bees in
America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
(Paperback)
Honey
bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly
influenced American values for four centuries. During every
major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers
have represented order and stability in a country without a
national religion, political party, or language.
Bees in
America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and
beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a
beekeeper, offers a varied social and technological history
from the colonial period, when the British first introduced
bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being
used by the American military to detect bombs. Early
European colonists introduced bees to the New World as part
of an agrarian philosophy borrowed from the Greeks and
Romans. Their legacy was intended to provide sustenance and
a livelihood for immigrants in search of new opportunities,
and the honey bee became a sign of colonization, alerting
Native Americans to settlers' westward advance. Colonists
imagined their own endeavors in terms of bees' hallmark
traits of industry and thrift and the image of the busy and
growing hive soon shaped American ideals about work, family,
community, and leisure.
The
image of the hive continued to be popular in the eighteenth
century, symbolizing a society working together for the
common good and reflecting Enlightenment principles of order
and balance. Less than a half-century later, Mormons
settling Utah (where the bee is the state symbol) adopted
the hive as a metaphor for their protected and close-knit
culture that revolved around industry, harmony, frugality,
and cooperation. In the Great Depression, beehives provided
food and bartering goods for many farm families, and during
World War II, the War Food Administration urged beekeepers
to conserve every ounce of beeswax their bees provided, as
more than a million pounds a year were being used in the
manufacture of war products ranging from waterproofing
products to tape.
The bee
remains a bellwether in modern America. Like so many other
insects and animals, the bee population was decimated by the
growing use of chemical pesticides in the 1970s.
Nevertheless, beekeeping has experienced a revival as
natural products containing honey and beeswax have increased
the visibility and desirability of the honey bee. Still a
powerful representation of success, the industrious honey
bee continues to serve both as a source of income and a
metaphor for globalization as America emerges as a leader in
the Information Age.
$21
(includes US Media Postage)
L.L.
Langstroth
Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's
Manual
(Reprint, Paperback)
The
first descriptive treatise of modern bee management. In a
reader-friendly, enthusiastic style, Langstroth addresses
every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and
enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and
worker; bee-hives; the handling of bees; and many other
topics. 25 plates.
$23
(includes US Media Postage)
John H.
Lovell
Honey
Plants of North America
(Reprint, Paperback)
Root
Publishing has issued this reprint of a beekeeping standard.
Written in 1926, the comprehensive and detailed information
about nectar and pollen sources as well as the intricacies
and intimacies of the honey bee/plant relationship is still
wonderfully pertinent and timely. The only book of its kind
still in print.
$24
(includes US Media Postage)
Mike and
Stuart McInnes with Maggie Stanfield
The Hibernation Diet—It works while you sleep!
Paperback
$18
(includes US Media Postage)
Charles
Mraz
Honey and Health
Paperback
$17
(includes US Media Postage)
C.C.
Miller
Fifty
Years Among the Bees
(Paperback)
Long a
classic within the beekeeping community, this book is one of
the greatest works on the ancient art and science of
beekeeping. A practical, yet endlessly charming handbook on
all aspects of this romantic, arcane pursuit, it offers
advice, observations, and information gleaned from a
half-century of beekeeping. 111 illustrations.
$19
(includes US Media Postage)
Roger A.
Morse and Kim Flottum
Honey Bee
Pests, Predators, and Diseases 3rd Edition
Hardcover
$33
(includes US Media Postage)
Ransome,
Hilda M
The
Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore (Dover Books on
Anthropology and Folklore)
(Paperback)
Chapters
cover the folklore of bees and bee culture—from Egyptian,
Babylonian, and other ancient sources to practices in modern
Europe. Rare illustrations of bees, hives, and beekeepers as
they appear in paintings and sculpture; on coins, jewelry,
and Mayan glyphs; and carved into African tree trunks.
$20
(includes US Media Postage)
Shimanuki, H., Kim Flottum and Ann Harmon
(Latest
authors of the book started by A.I. Root.
The ABC
and XYZ of Bee Culture (Hardcover)
This is
the 41st edition of the classic American
reference for bees and beekeeping. Most photos are in full
color, and there are nearly a thousand of them.
$63
(includes US Media Postage)
Mark L.
Winston
The
Biology of the Honey Bee (Paperback)
From
ancient cave paintings of honey bee nests to modern
science's richly diversified investigation of honey bee
biology and its applications, the human imagination has long
been captivated by the mysterious and highly sophisticated
behavior of this paragon among insect societies. In the
first broad treatment of honey bee biology to appear in
decades, Mark Winston provides rare access to the world of
this extraordinary insect. In a bright and engaging style
Winston probes the dynamics of the honey bee's social
organization. He recreates for us the complex infrastructure
of the nest, describes the highly specialized behavior of
workers, queens, and drones, and examines in detail the
remarkable ability of the honey bee colony to regulate its
functions according to events within and outside the nest.
Winston integrates into his discussion the results of recent
studies, bringing into sharp focus topics of current bee
research. These include the exquisite architecture of the
nest and its relation to bee physiology; the intricate
division of labor and the relevance of a temporal caste
structure to efficient functioning of the colony; and,
finally, the life-death struggles of swarming, supersedure,
and mating that mark the reproductive cycle of the honey
bee. The Biology of the Honey Bee not only reviews
the basic aspects of social behavior, ecology, anatomy,
physiology, and genetics, it also summarizes major
controversies in contemporary honey bee research, such as
the importance of kin recognition in the evolution of social
behavior and the role of the well-known dance language in
honey bee communication. Thorough, well-illustrated, and
lucidly written, this book will for many years be a valuable
resource for scholars, students, and beekeepers alike.
$42
(includes US Media Postage)
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