Provides information on all important scientific, historical, and economic aspects of beekeeping and apiarian biology, from afterswarming and age of bees to yeasts and zinc in honey

ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture

Science & Math

Root, A. I.

Biological Sciences

The A.I.Root Company

Honey Bee Law: Principles and Practice

Sylvia A Ezenwa

Stephen H. Morris (Randolph, VT) - "Bees Besieged" portrays the current state of honeybees and their keepers in America. Hobbyist Mares comes out to his hive one day and finds all his bees dead. His curiosity about what had befallen his bees leads to a spiraling journey to learn about what he describes as "the manifold problems facing bees generally, and their keepers." Mares is very much the observer, adopting an impartial journalistic stance as his base of knowledge grows. Occasionally, he will venture an opinion or take a stance, but mostly he is content to find the experts and let them be the storytellers. He begins in Vermont. Each interview points to a new referral, a new perspective, and another piece to the puzzle. The story becomes bigger, more complex, and more important. After a while the author is not trying to understand why his bees died, but what will happen to life on the planet if endangered pollinators become extinct. His circle widens as he travels to the District of Columbia, Texas, Louisiana, and beyond to learn about the current state of bees. It's not a pretty picture. Bees are besieged from all directions-environmental degradation, insidious mites (such as the ones that caused the author's bees to die), fluctuating honey prices, and aggressive, invasive species such as the much-ballyhooed African killer bees. It's a much larger story than just about bees and honey, as these insects play a vital role in the pollination of many agricultural crops. Threats to the bee population, therefore, are threats to the worldwide food supply. "Bees Besieged" is a must read for beekeepers, but its also for environmentalists, naturalists, and social observers.

Bees Besieged

Mares, Bill

This book is distilled from the monthly column, A Closer Look that appeared over eight years in Bee Culture Magazine, written by Clarence Collison and published by the A.I. Root Company. Organized into 17 sections (Honey Bee Castes to Impact of Pesticides) with 43 pages of references, many since 2000. Collison has collected much relevant biology in one place, updating our knowledge of what makes bees so interesting and distinctive organisms. Suitable for master beekeeper programs, college-level courses and general knowledge beekeeping. Collison has reviewed the vast body of research in the biology, physiology, biochemistry and behavior of honey bees and presented it in a concise and objective manner. Collison is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University. Previously he was extension entomologist at The Pennsylvania State University where he served as a beekeeping/pollination specialist and livestock entomologist.

A Closer Look: Basic Honey Bee Biology

Clarence H. Collison

An Eyewitness Account of Early American Beekeeping: The Autobiography of Amos Ives Root

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