Covers all aspects of beekeeping information for both hobbyist and professional. Practical, scientific and industry news of honey handling, colony management and the latest in scientific research.

Release Date January 1, 2009.

Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have revised and expanded their clear and comprehensive guide to cover changes in beekeeping.

A real honey of a book, Beekeeping For Dummies gets you on the road to enjoying this ancient, highly-rewarding, and oh-so-tasty hobby.

In 1923 Rudolf Steiner predicted the dire state of the honeybee today. He said that, within 50-80 years, we would see the consequences of mechanizing the forces that had previously operated organically in the beehive.

Beekeeper Mares went outside one day to find all of his bees dead. This event sends him on an investigative journey to find out what is killing off bees in our country. What he finds is multiple dangers for bees - the environment, breeding chemicals and more.

The bee may have a brain the size of a grass seed, but in its brief, five-week life it works as a brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. Savage invites readers to take a new look at creatures that are both familiar and wondrously odd.

2nd revised edition. 1016 pages. 16,000 species of bees or 1,200 genera/subgenera are presented and chronicled by the world's expert on bee biology. No one has taught m0re students about bee biology and systematics.

In her widely acclaimed A Country Year, Hubbell wrote about living on her 100-acre honey-producing farm in the Ozarks. Here she introduces us to the tasks and pleasures of beekeeping. Hubbell manages 300 hives, some on her own farm, others scattered about the countryside on land she rents for one gallon of honey a year.

Sandy Silver paid a $1 at the County Fair and walked into a small, dark room filled with hundreds of thousands of honeybees behind glass. “I want this,” she said. Over the objections of her husband, she got a honeybee Observation Hive. Her journal burrows deep into the everyday life and death of a world most of us have never even contemplated. This is a gentle and reverent book with a sharp edge.

In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee Culture, the leading professional journal, Winston uses beekeeping as a starting point to discuss broader issues.

The Hive is beautifully illustrated and filled with all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "societies", and how we view bees as a miniature universe into itself.

This practical guide covers everything a new beekeeper needs to know, from buying equipment to harvesting your very own honey. With clear, step-by-step instructions on handling and checking your bees, helpful tips and advice on keeping them healthy and productive with a collection of tempting honey-based recipes for you to try, "Keeping Bees" contains everything a modern beekeeper should know.

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.

This comprehensive guide will give beginners all they need to start and maintain a healthy bee colony, while experienced beekeepers will find advice on expanding into new areas of the business.

Written in 1985 and reprinted continuously, this little gem of a book explains bees and beekeeping without the technical jargon. It reads like a novel.

Well-documented, copiously illustrated study of the creature that has provided the world with wholesome food and inspired many beliefs and superstitions. Loaded with bee culture and lore.

Many beekeepers and researchers blame the chemical IMD for Colony Collapse Disorder, which has wiped out 23% of America’s beehives. Even trace amounts make bees unable to fly back to their hive. Since honeybees are essential to the production of most major food crops, their demise could spell catastrophe. Michael Schacker examines the evidence and offers a plan to save the bees.

This indispensable guide gives you everything you need to set up, maintain, and maximize honeybee colonies of all sizes--either in your suburban backyard or on your urban rooftop.

The strange case of the vanishing western honeybee has led to fears that we are dangerously out of kilter with nature. This important and compelling book will dramatically examine the environmental, political and economic forces shaping the honeybee's fragile existence - and why the world can't survive without it.