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July: Introduction to Queen Rearing (At The Connor Farm) ($275.00) July 23, 24 and 25, 2010, 9776 E. HJ Ave, Galesburg with Dr. Larry Connor Friday- 2 pm - 8 pm, Sat/Sun-9 am-3 pm Fee: $275, includes Queen Rearing Essentials and supplies, breaks. Limited enrollment. This course is for the beekeeper with minimal queen handling experience who wants to raise a few queens to several hundred over the course of the season. All the basic aspects of queen rearing: starters, finishers and mating nuclei, will be set up and put into operation by students. This is hands on beekeeping instruction in a small group environment! We will spend time discussing queen management from finding, replacing, introducing, using cells, virgins and mated queens and a whole lot more. Camping at Fort Custer and Motels in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, some as low as $30/night. Qty

Berthold: Beeswax Crafting. ($20.00) Covering beeswax from production to art projects, wax candles to encaustic painting. This book stimulates ideas and helps answer the question "What am I going to do with all this beeswax?" Qty

Blackiston: Beekeeping for Dummies ($28.00) Howland Blackiston Beekeeping for Dummies (Paperback) Beekeeping For Dummies is a honey of a book on an increasingly popular hobby. For both enjoyment and profit, beekeeping has become a booming enterprise. This easy-to-follow guide removes the mystery from this pastime. Realize the benefits of keeping bees, from aiding the environment to enjoying homemade honey and wax products. Beekeeping For Dummies includes detailed, full-color photographs that show how to install a package of bees in your hive, what to expect from your bees (they are incredibly well-tempered during swarming!), and how to spot-and solve-common beekeeping problems. Qty

Bonney: Beekeeping: A Practical Guide ($23.00) Richard Bonney Beekeeping: A Practical Guide (Paperback) For the professional and hobbyist, a detailed review of a full-year cycle of beekeeping, including managing colonies, taking the crop, coping with disease, and selecting equipment. The reader learns how to manage bees and keep them. Qty

Bonney: Hive Management: A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers ($21.00) Richard Bonney Hive Management: A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers The beekeeper's year begins with a late winter hive inspection and ends with "putting the bees to bed" in the autumn. Richard Bonney believes that each beekeeping activity should be performed with an eye toward the overall well-being of the colony, as part of an integrated year-round program of hive management. Long-term success in beekeeping can only be achieved by understanding the intimate lives, behaviors, and motivations of honey bees -- the factors which govern the life of each colony. Richard Bonney explains the reasons behind common practices that many beekeepers perform without really knowing why. He also stresses when to take timely actions that will prevent problems in future seasons. Hive Management offers concise, up-to-date information on the whole range of beekeeping tasks, including: -- How to prevent, control, and capture swarms. -- What you can tell from an outside inspection of your hives. -- When and how to "take the crop" and harvest honey. -- How to successfully requeen -- from handling and marking queens to methods of introducing one into a hive. -- The problem signs to look for when you open up a hive. For the practicing beekeeper who needs more information, or for the serious novice who wants to start out right, Hive Management offers sensible advice to help keep your honey bees thriving. Qty

Brother Adam - Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey Paperback. ($26.00) This book is recommended by those who raise summer increase colonies (as described in Increase Essentials), and overwinter the colonies for use in the spring. In this classic, Brother Adam tells his personal story, how bees were kept at the Abbey in SW England, and how he developed management techniques for breeding bees in that area. Qty

Brother Adam - In search of the best strains of bees. Paperback. ($32.00) In his life-long search for bee stocks, Brother Adam, creator of the Buckfast Strain of bees, visited many areas of the world where honey bees are kept. He evaluated these stocks both in nature and in his apiary trials. This is perhaps one of the best evaluations of different stocks, or races, or honey bees. Qty

Caron: Honey Bee Biology & Beekeeping ($43.00) Perhaps the best-balanced textbook on bees and beekeeping. Dr. Caron's review of biology and beekeeping was designed for the college classroom, but thousands of beekeepers are using as a definitive guide to management. The first part of the book deals with bee biology, and the second deals with learning actual beekeeping skills. This is a must-have for every serious beekeeper's library. Qty

Coggshall and Morse: Beeswax: Processing ($20.00) A scientific treatment of beeswax, this book is filled with plenty of practical advice. It is one of the all time favorites here at Wicwas Press. Qty

Collison: What Do You Know? Questions and answer format ($34.00) Clarence H. Collison What Do You Know? Questions and answer format Qty

Connor et al.: Asian Apiculture ($80.00) Biology of honey bees around the world that happen to be in SE Asia. Considerable biology and mite research. This book's section on mite research is widely cited in the academic literature due to the material covered therin. Hardcover Qty

Connor: Bee Sex Essentials. ($25.00) The fate of the queen and the drones she mates with ultimately determines the fate of your colony. This book covers the development and colony regulation of drone and queen production, how they mate and influence the hive. A section on introductory bee genetics explains sex determination, the role of drone diversity, and other concepts beekeepers must understand. Look at model breeding programs using survivor and mite-resistant stocks (yours and others) to develop a miticide free management plan. This book features all full color photographs. Qty

Connor: Increase Essentials ($18.00) A new book expanded from Bee Culture articles. A practical look at various methods to increase your colony holdings, and how other beekeepers do it. Suggests standards for nucleus colonies. Shows how beekeepers are wintering nuclei. Well illustrated. Now in its second printing-the first sold out in 8 months! Qty

Connor: Queen Rearing Essentials ($23.00) Queen Rearing Essentials Author: Lawrence John Connor Publisher: Wicwas Press Publication Date: December 2009 100 pages with 167 full color photographs, 6 x 9 inches Retail Price: $23.00 In this post-varroa, post-Colony Collapse Syndrome era, beekeepers everywhere are developing localized, mite-resistant bee stocks. Key to this is their ability to raise queen cells and queens. Bee Culture/American Bee Journal author Larry Connor describes a very successful queen rearing method using Starter and Finisher colonies. Connor also wrote Increase Essentials and Bee Sex Essentials. The book is organized as follows: Queen and Colony Evaluation, Queen Marking and Clipping, Biology of Cell Production, Cell Starting, Making Queen Cells, Cell Development, Cell Finishing, Drone Production, Nucleus Production/Cells, Evaluating New Queens, and Cells and Queens Only - A look at a large-scale queen operation. "Detailed and practical manual" A "must-have for every beekeeper" filled with "astounding photographs." Qty

Conrad: Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture ($38.00) Ross Conrad with Forward by Gary Paul Nabhan Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture Natural Beekeeping describes opportunities for the seasoned professional to modify existing operations to improve the quality of hive products, increase profits, and eliminate the use of chemical treatments. Beginners will need no other book to guide them. Whether you are an experienced apiculturist looking for ideas to develop an Integrated Pest Management approach or someone who wants to sell honey at a premium price, this is the book you've been waiting for. Qty

Delaplane: First Lessons of Beekeeping ($14.00) Keith Delaplane First Lessons of Beekeeping (Dadant) Paperback Qty

Delaplane: Primeras Lecciones en Apicultura - Translation by Ernesto de Guzman ($14.00) Keith Delaplane-Translation by Ernesto de Guzman Primeras Lecciones en Apicultura (Dadant) Paperback Qty

Doolittle's Scientific Queen Rearing (REPRINT) ($23.00) G. M. Doolittle is often called the Father of Modern Queen Rearing, having developed the method of transferring young larvae from worker brood cells to special wax cups he fashioned from rods from wooden rakes. Having spent over two decades to develop the methods, reviewing other methods, and evaluating the results, he finished the book on Christmas, 1888. The book was published by the American Bee Journal in 1889 and reprinted in 1899. This is a very useful book, and in many ways amazing due to Doolittle's insight into bee biology and the importance of quality queens in a beekeeping operation. An absolute must if you raise queens or plan to, this book is highly recommended for all beekeepers who are serious about learning how the beekeeper influences the quality of the queen and thus the entire hive. The reprint has 101 pages. It has been reset, images enhanced, and a Table of Contents added to help find Doolittle's many discussion threads. Qty

Doolittle: A Year in an Out-Apiary ($23.00) Delightfully reformatted and supplemented with a table of contents, index and an interview by E.R. Root, this reprint reviews Doolittle's out-apiary experiences in 1905. The auto was new, but his queen and increase methods are still very useful. Doolittle's system of colony management, indeed apiary management, is still very instructive 100 years later. Qty

Flottum: The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden ($27.00) Kim Flottum The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden Paperback. This book isn't just a guide to beekeeping or a honey cookbook; it's both. No other book on the market provides an in-depth review of beekeeping and what honey is good for and how to use it. Beautifully illustrated, the Backyard Beekeeper is perfect for the health-conscious person who wants to sweeten up their life by saying no to processed sugars and yes to eating organic, healthy food. This book is the complete "honey bee" resource with general information on bees; a how-to guide to the art of bee keeping and how to set up, care for, and harvest your own hives; as well as tons of fun facts and projects that are bee related. The second half of the book is the complete guide to honey. It reviews the different types of honey and their health effects as well as provides hundreds of ideas and recipes for using honey in recipes, cosmetically in facemasks and shampoos, and for medicinal uses. Qty

Hooper: Guide to Bees & Honey. ($25.00) Looking for a book for your second or third year in beekeeping? This is the American edition of the popular British how-to book, with color photos. Hardcover. Qty

Hoopingarner & Connor: Apiculture in the 21st Century. ($25.00) Looking at current research program and what the future holds for beekeeping. Qty

Hoopingarner: The Hive and Honey Bee Revisited ($17.00) Roger Hoopingarner The Hive and Honey Bee Revisited-An annotated update of L.L. Langstroth's beekeeping classic Paperback. Qty

Hubbell: A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them ($23.00) Sue Hubbell A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them Paperback Sue Hubbell is the author of, among other works, A Country Year and A Book of Bees, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Maine and Washington, D.C. Qty

Instructional Classes on CD ($25.00) Dana Stahlman Three Beekeeping Classes on CD Beekeeping 101, 201, 301 This is a program for new beekeepers by an experienced beekeeper who also worked as an educator. Stahlman was born into a commercial beekeeping family in Ohio. He has packed a great deal of information onto this single disk. Options include: Welcome and Read Me Menu for beekeeping classes Topic Search Print e-book copy Dictionary Power Point slide shows Better Bees by Jay Smith Forty years among the bees by C.C. Miller About the author Qty

Laidlaw: Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding ($35.00) "Written for beekeepers who know little about genetics and geneticists who know little about beekeeping." Few books deal so effectively with both the hands-on art of queen rearing and the scientific aspects of bee breeding as does this text. Professors Laidlaw and Page of the University of California, Davis, have prepared a comprehensive yet understandable book for both the beekeeper and the scientist. Laidlaw, born in 1907, made important discoveries about breeding methods using instrumental insemination during the 1940s. He spent his professional life at the U. of California, Davis, perfecting II technology to the point where it is widely used in bee breeding techniques. Moreover, he worked with commercial queen producers and developed reliable methods for producing quality queen bees for either natural or instrumental mating. Page has developed modern bee breeding concepts using computer methodology. His closed population breeding and mass selection techniques are widely used by bee breeders. If you are a beekeeper interested in producing queen bees for your operation, this is an excellent book for your study. If you are a scientist interested in techniques used in bee breeding, this book is also for you. The book is designed as a work-book textbook, with ample white space for notes and post-its. The twelve chapters cover history of bee breeding to a delightful 'Whimsy' section, and includes 'Song of the Queen Bee.' There are many excellent photographs and illustrations to help you understand complex ideas. ONLY A FEW COPIES OF THIS BOOK REMAIN. WHILE VERY POPULAR, THE JUNIOR AUTHOR HAS WITHDRAWN THE RIGHTS TO A FURTHER REPRINT. ORDER TODAY OR DO WITHOUT. Qty

Langstroth: Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee ($23.00) L.L. Langstroth Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual Paperback Reprint 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. Qty

Lovell: Honey Plants of North America ($24.00) John H. Lovell Honey Plants of North America Paperback Reprint 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. Qty

Maeterlinck: The Life of the Bee ($18.00) Maurice Maeterlinck The Life of the Bee (Reprint, Paperback) The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth Qty

Miller: Fifty Years Among the Bees ($19.00) C.C. Miller Fifty Years Among the Bees Paperback Reprint 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. Qty

Morse & Flottum: Honey Bee Pests, Predators, and Diseases 3rd Edition ($33.00) Roger A. Morse and Kim Flottum Honey Bee Pests, Predators, and Diseases 3rd Edition Hardcover Qty

Morse/Morse: Honey Shows. ($10.00) A compact booklet with guidelines for entering and running a honey show. Qty

Morse: Making Mead (Honey Wine). ($20.00) A best seller for decades, this book contains the essence of what you need to know about making honey wine (mead) from the honey sitting right now, in storage. Qty

Morse: Rearing Queen Honey Bees ($20.00) Starter queen rearing book for hobby and sideline beekeepers. This includes work with mating in areas of African bees. Clear and will illustrated. While this book does not include bee genetics and breeding, it is designed to start a person in the queen rearing activity. Qty

Mraz: Honey and Health ($17.00) Charles Mraz Honey and Health Paperback $17 Qty

Ransome: The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore ($20.00) Hilda M Ransome The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore Paperback Chapters cover the folklore of bees and bee culturefrom 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. Qty

Shimanuki, Flottum & Harman: The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, 41st Edition - Latest authors of the book started by A.I. Root. ($63.00) Shimanuki, H., Kim Flottum and Ann Harman Latest authors of the book started by A.I. Root. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, 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. Hardcover. Qty

Winston: The Biology of the Honey Bee ($42.00) 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. Qty