The Bee Book: The Wonder of Bees – How to Protect them – Beekeeping Know-how

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Great book. Detailed and informative, with a good deal of experimental and historical evidence to support the author’s points. A bit on the wonky side and loaded with information so one needed to pay attention and contemplate what was being presented. The BEEBOOK project is at present divided into three volumes: The COLOSS BEEBOOK, Volume I: Standard methods for Apis mellifera research; The COLOSS BEEBOOK, Volume II: Standard methods for Apis mellifera pest and pathogen research; and The COLOSS BEEBOOK, Volume III: Standard methods for Apis mellifera product research. Volumes I and II were published in 2013, the first chapters of volume III were published in 2016, and its final chapters will be published in 2021. Second on our curated list of the best books for beekeeping is this well-presented book from US-based Amber Bradshaw.

First created by Branner to teach her son to read in 1950, Ant and Bee books have remained a favourite educational series for young children. I was really drawn to Tom Seeley’s The Lives of Bees. He IS the bee keeper’s bee keeper."—Ira Flatow, Science FridayKarin Alton is an entomologist working on evolution, behaviour and environment at The University of Sussex. She is founder of FlowerScapes Ltd a company that provides habitat creation and wildlife gardening solutions informed by the latest ecological research. FlowerScapes also supplies specialist bee and butterfly seed mixes for parks and gardens, road verges, amenity land and agricultural field margins. Bee-vision polarizes sunlight into concentric circles with the sun in the middle, which is why they understand the direction of the sun on cloudy days.

One bee, Flora 717, rebels against a totalitarian state in Laline Paull's debut dystopian novel set in a beehive.

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The book uses a step-by-step approach to explaining the art and science of becoming a good beekeeper. It’s well illustrated and easy to follow too, just like the car manuals! From what scientists can tell, bees feel pain. They also have very rich and complex emotional lives, they can learn from each other as well as other animals, they can be taught to solve complex problems, and their minds are incredibly powerful thinking machines. Currently, we can't even design a robot that behaves as efficiently as a bee. First off - there were very few photos of insects in this book. Insects are cool, but seeing them up close (esp. with extreme magnification of compound eyes) gives me the heebies.

A detailed and well-illustrated work that will fascinate both curious scientists and those with a passion for bee keeping. . . . Seeley’s book offers great opportunities to learn about honey bees in the wild . . . a source of inspiration for sustainable beekeeping practices."—Fabrice Requier & Robin M Crewe, Trends in Ecology and Evolution Thomas Seeley's lifetime of work, study, and love of honey bees has given us the inspiration we need to stop inventing temporary solutions to honey bee problems, and just listen to what the bees are telling us by example. They've been shouting to us for hundreds of years, but only with Seeley's help have we been able to hear."—Kirk Webster, Champlain Valley Bees and Queens Beekepers tend to be calm and patient people. Above all, beekeepers are nature lovers. Many keep bees simply for the satisfaction that comes from knowing you’re having a positive impact on the natural world. The honey is just a nice added bonus! Is beekeeping an expensive hobby? Regardless of what you think of the title, this is a really good beginner beekeeper guide and has been specially adapted to suit the UK market. Having already read Honeybee Democracy, which is referenced quite often in this book, and The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild, I had a solid base before starting this one, but I think reading this book first would have been better. It's broader in its scope, so if you haven't read Seeley's yet, you may want to start here instead. Definitely read Honeybee Democracy afterwards, though, since it details the waggle dance and the social structure of bees, and it's fascinating. Also referenced assiduously is Karl von Frisch, who was a giant in this field of study. I have yet to read any of his books because I think they're even more technical than Seeley's, but Animal Architecture is calling my name.My three-year-old is very interested in nature and it was a fantastic stimulus for us to start talking about bees and how they live and what they do" Toppsta Dave Goulson is a specialist in bumblebee ecology and conservation based at The University of Sussex. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. In 2006 he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity devoted to reversing bumblebee decline. Bees also have their own dance language which they use to represent distance, direction, and duration, to tell hive members where to go to find flower patches. Originally a book about an adventurous bee who leaves the hive and befriends other insects, this much-loved character has grown to have her own comic strip, and international anime TV series. Bees are not a "hive mind" like you see in science fiction (no animal is, as far as we can tell), each bee is very much an individual and can have its own ideas about itself and the world.