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

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The story of what would happen to our ecosystem if one key species disappeared with tips on how children can protect our natural resources. This story of this strange woman and the horrors of her past seems to really push some buttons in this country... I'm very chuffed to have people voting for me and voting for Sally Diamond, she's a very special character to me, my favourite character I've ever written, and she's the first main character I've written who wasn't a psychopath!" she laughed. Children's author and illustrator Peter Donnelly won another Irish Book award this time his The President’s Dog won the Specsavers Children's book for the year in the Junior Category. Fascinating… engrossing… Paull’s clear fascination with her source material brings humanity and warmth to a depiction of the remarkable social world of bees, which is no small achievement.” – Huffington Post

If you’re ready to help save the bees, this is a great place to start. No matter where you live, this well-organized companion shows you the best plants to use.” – Joe Lamp’l, creator and host of Growing a Greener World® Paul Murray's The Bee Sting won the Eason Novel of the Year prize at this year's An Post Irish Book Awards. The Fresh Honey Cookbook: 84 Recipes from a Beekeeper’s Kitchen – Laury Masterton, Storey Publishing 2013 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 Tells you everything about honeybees that has not been told . . . . The Lives of Bees is well-researched and one of the most authentic works on honeybees."— The Washington Book Review

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Bees on the Roof is a sweet coming of age story. The book explores issues of family dynamics, friendships and first loves while sending an eco-friendly message. It provides fascinating information on bees and how bee colony collapse impacts all of our lives. A great read for tweens.” – Melanie Jacobs, Teen Librarian, Enoch Pratt Free Library Seeley brings us dispatches from the cutting-edge scientific hive-mind exploring the complex behavioral, social, and survival dynamics of bee colonies."—Olivia Rutigliano, LitHub Dave Goulson is generous, he credits his colleagues and PhD students – and he frequently draws on his vivid adventurous childhood, which is always imaginatively close to hand and inspires his writing with unselfconscious freshness. Adventure is not only a word he uses a lot, but something he prizes and wants for everyone. Going on Bee Quest with him puts the natural world within our reach – to enjoy but also to protect. There’s no two ways about it, we have to act in some way, and now, or it will continue to be paved over, sprayed into submission, and restricted to oblivion. But despite this underlying serious awareness, this is a truly positive and empowering read – you close it better informed, filled with poetry, pies and ready to get out there and make a difference. When I was a teenager this was among the first books I read about insects. It instilled the notion that insects were much more interesting than plants, and prompted me to take an apiculture course in college as well as to do a special study on honey bee ocelot." – recommended by Eric Grissell Engagingly written and deeply personal, it's the best bee book in print!"—Nicola Bradbear, Bee Craft

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. Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes – Thomas Rainer & Claudia West, Timber Press 2015 The perfect introduction to bee conservation for little ones. Learn all about the beautiful world of bees and their adventure from flower to flower. You'll find out just how much they matter, why they are declining, and what we can do to help in this adorable kids' book. Bees & Their Keepers: A Journey Through Seasons and Centuries – Lotte Möller , Harry N. Abrams 2021 Expert information on the bees and their habitats, keys, and illustrations of all species – except those recently reintroduced. Books about bees and their livesA review of the biology of pollination and pollination requirements, and how to conserve bees for optimum pollination. recommended by Karin Alton I am not going to say that this book should be on every beekeeper’s book shelf; that is the wrong place for it. It should be much nearer at hand and thoroughly studied. With beekeepers commonly accepting 30% losses, they need to know what is going on and what is being done to help them and their bees.” – John Phipps, The Beekeepers Quarterly A nicely presented book for older children. It gives an account of some of the problems facing honey bees, especially in the US. recommended by Karin Alton The Bee Book: Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come – Alistair Daing, Editor, DK 2016

Bees are responsible for so much more than making honey. This book is an essential tool in encouraging the protection of our precious buzzing friends for generations to come. While Claire Keegan missed out on the Novel of the Year for So Late In The Day, she went on to win the prestigious Libraries Association of Ireland Author of the Year award last night.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 Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey, The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World – Holly Bishop, Atria 2016 Wild Honey Bees: An Intimate Portrait – Ingo Arndt, Jurgen Tautz, and Thomas Seeley, Princeton University Press 2022 A lovely old book, with colour plates and other illustrations, and lots of natural history about this wonderful collection of insects. recommended by Karin Alton In recounting the daily brutality as well as the glimmers of beauty, this novel humanizes the terrifying refugee stories we read about in the news. Lefteri explores questions of trust and portrays what trauma and loss can do to individuals and their relationships. . . . A beautiful rumination on seeing what is right in front of us—both the negative and the positive.” – The Boston Globe

Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to beekeeping—Darwinian Beekeeping—which enables honey bees to use the toolkit of survival skills their species has acquired over the past thirty million years, and to evolve solutions to the new challenges they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits of honey bees.

I was really drawn to Tom Seeley’s The Lives of Bees. He IS the bee keeper’s bee keeper."—Ira Flatow, Science Friday This is a remarkable and rewarding book, complementary to, yet in some respects going far beyond, its predecessors. It is highly recommended.” – Caryl P. Haskins, New York Times Book Review Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants – Heather Holm, Pollination Press 2014 Maybe as a society we just want a bit more hope, and the story is hopeful," Ms O'Sullivan said. Colin Walsh Thomas Seeley gives us the knowledge we need to rethink beekeeping. He deftly articulates how honey bees survive—and thrive—living naturally inside trees. Meanwhile, within vast beekeeping industries, honey bee mortality remains at an all-time high. This marvelous book enables the thinking beekeeper to learn from the natural life systems of resilient and healthy honey bees."—Nicola Bradbear, Director of Bees for Development