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Instruction Classes on CD

Three Beekeeping Classes on CD

Dana Stahlman, Blacklick Ohio, Retired Beekeeper-Educator

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

$25 (includes First Class US Postage)

Books by other publishers

Bonney, Richard

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.

$23 (includes US Media Postage)

Bonney, Richard

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.

$21 (includes US Media Postage)

Blackiston, Howland

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.

$28 (includes US Media Postage)

Simon Buxton

The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters

(Paperback)

Brooke Medicine Eagle, author of Buffalo Woman Comes Singing: An exquisitely written, powerful, and important book. It reveals for the first time a European form of shamanism and healing magic that arises lucidly and sweetly from the natural world immediately around us--the extraordinary details of which we so often overlook. S. R. Harrop, chairman of the department of anthropology, University of Kent, England: We search the exotic and distant for transformative secrets, well-being and healing. But are we perceptive enough to receive the gifts from the humblest of our own gardens? No matter. Simon Buxton has walked this path, from the primordial to the present, and freely grants us the exquisite treasures contained within The Shamanic Way of the Bee.

$19 (includes US Media Postage)

Ross Conrad with Forward by Gary Paul Nabhan

Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture (Paperback)

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.

$35.00 plus postage

Keith Delaplane

First Lessons of Beekeeping (Dadant)

Paperback $14 (includes US Media Postage)

Keith Delaplane—Translation by Ernesto de Guzman

Primeras Lecciones en Apicultura

(Dadant) Paperback $14 (includes US Media Postage)

Flottum, Kim

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.

$27 (includes US Media Postage)

Bernd Heinrich

In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field

(Paperback)

Why would a grown man chase hornets with a thermometer, paint whirligig beetles bright red, or track elephants through the night to fill trash bags with their prodigious droppings? Some might say--to advance science. Heinrich says--because it's fun.

Bernd Heinrich, author of the much acclaimed Bumblebee Economics, has been playing in the wilds of one continent or another all his life. In the process, he has become one of the world's foremost physiological ecologists. With In a Patch of Fireweed, he will undoubtedly become one of our foremost writers of popular science.

Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist's life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed into the process of discovery. For the reader, it is simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner workings of nature. Before his years of research in the woodlands and deserts of North America, the New Guinea highlands, and the plains of East Africa, Heinrich had a sense of the wild that few people in this century can know. He tells the whole story, from his refugee childhood hidden in a German forest, eating mice fried in boar fat, to his ongoing research in the woods surrounding his cabin in Maine.

$31.00 (includes US Media Postage)

Roger Hoopingarner

The Hive and Honey Bee Revisited—An annotated update of L.L. Langstroth’s beekeeping classic

Paperback. $17 (includes US Media Postage)

Tammy Horn

Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

(Paperback)

Honey bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language.

Bees in America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a varied social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first introduced bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being used by the American military to detect bombs. Early European colonists introduced bees to the New World as part of an agrarian philosophy borrowed from the Greeks and Romans. Their legacy was intended to provide sustenance and a livelihood for immigrants in search of new opportunities, and the honey bee became a sign of colonization, alerting Native Americans to settlers' westward advance. Colonists imagined their own endeavors in terms of bees' hallmark traits of industry and thrift and the image of the busy and growing hive soon shaped American ideals about work, family, community, and leisure.

The image of the hive continued to be popular in the eighteenth century, symbolizing a society working together for the common good and reflecting Enlightenment principles of order and balance. Less than a half-century later, Mormons settling Utah (where the bee is the state symbol) adopted the hive as a metaphor for their protected and close-knit culture that revolved around industry, harmony, frugality, and cooperation. In the Great Depression, beehives provided food and bartering goods for many farm families, and during World War II, the War Food Administration urged beekeepers to conserve every ounce of beeswax their bees provided, as more than a million pounds a year were being used in the manufacture of war products ranging from waterproofing products to tape.

The bee remains a bellwether in modern America. Like so many other insects and animals, the bee population was decimated by the growing use of chemical pesticides in the 1970s. Nevertheless, beekeeping has experienced a revival as natural products containing honey and beeswax have increased the visibility and desirability of the honey bee. Still a powerful representation of success, the industrious honey bee continues to serve both as a source of income and a metaphor for globalization as America emerges as a leader in the Information Age.

$21 (includes US Media Postage)

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.

$23 (includes US Media Postage)

L.L. Langstroth

Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual

(Reprint, Paperback)

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.

$23 (includes US Media Postage)

John H. Lovell

Honey Plants of North America

(Reprint, Paperback)

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.

$24 (includes US Media Postage)

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

$18.00 (includes US Media Postage)

Mike and Stuart McInnes with Maggie Stanfield

The Hibernation Diet—It works while you sleep!

Paperback $18 (includes US Media Postage)

Charles Mraz

Honey and Health

Paperback $17 (includes US Media Postage)

C.C. Miller

Fifty Years Among the Bees

(Paperback)

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.

$19 (includes US Media Postage)

Roger A. Morse and Kim Flottum

Honey Bee Pests, Predators, and Diseases 3^rd Edition

Hardcover $33 (includes US Media Postage)

Ransome, Hilda M

The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore (Dover Books on Anthropology and Folklore)

(Paperback)

Chapters cover the folklore of bees and bee culture—from 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.

$20 (includes US Media Postage)

Shimanuki, H., Kim Flottum and Ann Harmon

(Latest authors of the book started by A.I. Root.

The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture (Hardcover)

This is the 41^st edition of the classic American reference for bees and beekeeping. Most photos are in full color, and there are nearly a thousand of them.

$63 (includes US Media Postage)

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.

$42 (includes US Media Postage)