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Links & Resources Page |
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This page seeks to provide information that is useful or interesting to
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National Beekeeping Associations & Organisations (UK and Republic of Ireland) |
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Local weather forecast |
From the Met Office. |
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Local weather forecast |
From The BBC. |
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Local weather forecast |
From AccuWeather. |
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Local weather forecast |
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Activ Stratford-upon-Avon |
Online guide for the Stratford-upon-Avon area. |
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The Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, family owned since it was first published in 1860, has been the respected voice of the local community for over 130 years. |
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Online version of Stratford Observer, a free weekly covering news and sport in the Warwickshire town. |
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Open Roads Guide |
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British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) |
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Welsh Beekeepers' Association (WBKA) |
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Scottish Beekeepers' Association (SBKA) |
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Federation of Irish Beekeepers' Associations (FIBKA) |
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Bee Farmers Association (BFA) |
For beekeepers with more than 40 hives. |
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Bee Improvement & Bee Breeders' Association (BIBBA) |
BIBBA was originally founded in 1964 for the conservation, restoration,
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Central Association of Beekeepers |
By organising lectures and producing publications, the association enables beekeepers, bee scientists and others interested in bees to keep in touch with the latest research and ideas about bees and related topics. |
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First Honey Co-operative |
First Honey Co-operative Limited is non-profit-making honey marketing
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International Bee Research Association (IBRA) |
The International Bee Research Association is the world information specialist on bees. |
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National Honey Show |
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Nottingham |
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Nottinghamshire |
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Petersfield & District |
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Salisbury |
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South Staffordshire |
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Stratford-upon-Avon & District |
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Surrey |
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Twickenham and Thames Valley |
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Warwick & Leamington |
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Warwickshire |
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West Glamorgan |
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West Lancashire |
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West Sussex |
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Wye Valley |
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World Bees |
Beekeeping photographs from around the world by Gilles Ratia. |
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Alaska |
Alaska Honeybee Home Page. |
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American Beekeeping Federation |
The American Beekeeping Federation will act on behalf of the beekeeping industry on issues affecting the interests and the economic viability of the various sectors of the industry. |
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Apimondia |
Apimondia exists to promote scientific, ecological, social and economic
apicultural development in all countries and the co-operation of beekeepers`
associations, scientific bodies and of individuals involved in apiculture
worldwide. |
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Argentina |
Current information about Argentine beekeeping |
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Australia |
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Back Yard Beekeepers Association (US) |
The purpose of the BYBA is to provide our membership with interesting and practical information about the "how-to's" of beekeeping. The club also provides the general public with educational programs about honeybees and the benefits of beekeeping in our communities. |
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Canada |
Canadian beekeepers' website. |
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Canada - Alberta |
Canadian Government information. Alberta produces approximately 35 per cent of Canada's honey. |
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Canada - Ontario |
The Ontario Beekeepers' Association (OBA) was established in 1881. It is one of the oldest established farm organisations in Ontario and was founded even before the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. |
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Canadian Honey Council |
The National Association of Canadian Beekeepers. |
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Chile |
Our web site is loaded with pictures. To see all the pages you must be a little patience while they are loading. If there is any picture you like, feel yourself free to download it and use it. For this the pictures are there. Our website will never be ready, because we will add a page here, another there. We hope you enjoy our site |
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Crete |
By Lucia Nixon: Here I discuss bee-keeping in Sphakia in the 20th and 21st century, and and where possible in the Turkish period (in Sphakia Survey chronology, A.D. 1669- 1900).. |
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Croatia |
The Republic of Croatia is situated between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea and incorporates a part of Pannonian region, thus containing a wide diversity of natural, economic and other features. Croatia varies in climate and, as a consequence, a wide diversity of flora and fauna flourish in a relatively small geographic area. |
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Denmark |
Through ten years we have recommended bio-technical control of varroa (trapping combs, drone brood removal), and use of formic acid, lactic acid and lately also oxalic acid. |
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Dutch Bee Web |
Good pages in English on heating and HMF, solitary bees and much more. |
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Egypt |
Beehives have been in use in Egypt for almost 5000 years. This is an ancient art which has influenced the entire Mediterranean region, extending eastward into the Middle East and southward into tropical Africa. |
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Ethiopia |
Article from the BBC. |
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Fynbos Honey |
"The Cape Fynbos, with its unique diversity of plant species, is of world importance. What you find here is 'evolution gone crazy'... I can think of no other place that has such a concentration and diversity of plant species." -environmental expert, Dr Norman Myers |
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Guatemala & Nicaragua Project - Fairview College |
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India |
'Good potential for honey export'. Article by K V Peter. |
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India |
Beekeeping in the rubber plantations of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. |
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Lithuania |
A wide range of subjects on beekeeping, bees, apiary products, their healing properties and even recipes could be found on the site. You will get acquainted with our apiary and see photos from the personal album of the beekeeper. |
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Malta |
The Maltese Islands possess a very rich wild flora with over 1000 flowering plants recorded. This is one reason why the Islands are renowned for best quality honey produced. Wild Thyme (Thymus capitatus) honey collected from the barren land in the North of Malta is the most preferred type of honey. |
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Nepal |
The Beekeeping Shop is established after the completion of the "Beekeeping Training and the Extension Support Project " (BETRESP"-a joint project of HMG/Nepal and the Netherlands development organisation) with the initial support of the project and the involvement of the project staff in 1995. |
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New Zealand |
This website contains information for members and the public on current issues such as the Varroa mite; industry products; legislation related to beekeeping and the relevant submissions and discussion; reports on activities related to environmental, support and disease management matters. |
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New Zealand |
beekeeping.co.nz |
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Quebec Bee Museum |
The Musée de l'Abeille Website received the « Best Website: Small Business » award from the Grands Prix du tourisme québecois 2000, Québec area. |
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Serbia |
Good natural conditions, moderate continental climate and richness of plant life make Serbia excellent environment for beekeeping. On its area of 88,361 sq km (34,116 sq mi), inhabited by 9.8 million people, there are around 30,000 beekeepers with approximately 430,000 hives. |
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Slovenia |
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Yemen |
The Beekeepers of Wadi Du'an. |
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Yukon Territory Project - Fairview College |
Fairview College - located at Fairview in Alberta, Canada - was the premier facility for studying practical beekeeping in Western Canada. The town of Fairview is located in the centre of one of the most productive honey producing areas in Canada, and the world, the Peace River area. Long summer days in these northern latitudes, together with vast acres of nectar producing plants produce large crops of water white honey. |
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American Bee Journal (ABJ) |
Leading American Beekeeping magazine. |
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Apiacta |
The official journal of Apimondia. Volume 2003 is available free of charge on the Internet. Volume 2004 will appear free of charge as well. |
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Apidologie |
A quality journal in bee science. Abstracts for recent issues plus free access to journals for 2000. |
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Apis Newsletter |
Home page. |
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Apis Newsletter Group |
A Yahoo group based on the APIS Newsletter developed by MT Sanford. |
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Apis-UK Newsletter |
Excellent monthly(ish) newsletter edited by David Cramp. |
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B & K Books |
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Bee Craft |
The official journal of The British Beekeepers' Association. |
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Bee Culture |
Leading American Beekeeping magazine. |
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Bee World |
Bee World is like no other journal. It takes the latest in bee science and beekeeping, and provides topical reviews and digests which are relevant to people everywhere. Published by IBRA. |
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Journal of Apicultural Research (JAR) |
This journal publishes descriptions of new findings on the scientific aspects of the biology, ecology, natural history and culture of Apoidea in general and Apis species in particular. Published by IBRA. |
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Journal of ApiProduct and ApiMedical Science (JAAS) |
This is a new (January 2009) scientific peer reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the latest global research on hive products. Published by IBRA. |
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Northern Bee Books |
Publishers and bee book sellers. |
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The Beekeepers' Quarterly |
Published by Northern Bee Books. Online version here. |
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The Honey Shop |
Bee Books New & Old. (BBNO). |
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BioOne |
BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. |
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Biosis |
BIOSIS, established in 1926, is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge for the common good. |
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Blackwell Synergy |
163,020 articles from 416 leading journals. (August 2002) |
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British Medical Journal |
Stings and anaphalaxis. |
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Entomological Society of America Publications |
The mission of ESA is to promote entomology in all its subdisciplines for the advancement of science and the benefit of society. Toward this end, ESA publishes a series of journals and books that report the results of significant research in all areas of entomology from manuscripts submitted for publication. |
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Florida Entomologist |
Florida Entomologist, the first long-published, refereed, natural science journal on the Internet. The Florida Entomological Society still produces the traditionally printed version of Florida Entomologist, but you can view, search, or print any article published since June 1917 by accessing online files. |
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FreeMedicalJournals.com |
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. |
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Genetics and Molecular Research |
Various papers on bees and varroa - use the search facility. |
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Ingenta |
Since its launch in May 1998, Ingenta has developed and grown to become the leading Web infomediary empowering the exchange of academic and professional content online. |
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ISI Web of Science |
The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. |
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JSTOR |
In the broadest sense, JSTOR's mission is to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. In pursuing this mission, JSTOR has adopted a system-wide perspective, taking into account the sometimes conflicting needs of libraries, publishers, and scholars. |
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Nature |
Streaming video on the Honeybee Genome. |
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PubMed Central |
PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature
managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is not a journal publisher.
Access to PubMed Central (PMC) is free and unrestricted. |
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ScienceDirect |
Born out of an Elsevier Science® tradition in scholarly communication, ScienceDirect® has always followed a vision of the digital library of the future. Today we offer one of the world's most advanced web delivery systems for scientific, technical and medical information. |
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alt.hobbies.beekeeping |
Internet news group - limited traffic - mainly beginners - advice given may be of rather dubious quality. Good search engine here. |
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Bee Gadgets |
A list specifically for exchanging ideas on development of beekeeping gadgets, tools, and aids and a place to collaborate in designing new methods of measuring and analysing beehive performance. |
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Bee Improvement & Bee Breeders' Association (BIBBA) |
BIBBA_L is a free opt-in mail list for beekeepers interested in all aspects of honey bee improvement, queen rearing and bee breeding. |
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Bee-L |
Moderated 'serious' discussion list - excellent. Searchable archives back to July 1989! |
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Bee Net |
The Computer Beekeeping Network. Contact. |
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Beesource Bulletin Board |
Online source book for beekeeping. Most beekeeping topics covered by the various discussion groups. |
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Honeybee World |
This moderated list is intended for professional beekeepers, experienced
hobbyists, scientists and extension people. |
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rec.crafts.meadmaking |
Discussion group for mead. |
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sci.agriculture.beekeeping |
Not much 'sci', but some reasonable answers given to questions. Often light-hearted banter. Good search engine here. |
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Allied Glass |
Supplier of honey jars (in container loads!) |
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Bayer Group |
Manufacturers of Bayvarol. |
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BB Wear |
Manufacturers of protective clothing for beekeepers. |
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Beechwood Bees |
Providing quality and affordable beekeeping equipment is what we are all about here at Beechwood Bees. Being passionate about beekeeping as well as being beekeepers ourselves gives us an insight into what beekeepers want and need. |
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Bee Equipped |
All beekeeping equipment. Specialist in Apidea mating hives, Jenter queen rearing equipment and JZ & BZ cell cups. |
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Bee Hive Bits |
Specialising in Metal and Plastic Components for Bee Hives. |
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BeeProof Suits |
Online retailer of beekeeper's clothing. Bee Proof Suits range includes |
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Bellingham + Stanley |
Eclipse honey refractometer. |
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Betterbee |
At Betterbee, we feel innovation and experience in the field are what separates us from our competitors. We continue to run a commercial apiary and deserve the motto "Beekeepers serving beekeepers". |
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BJ Engineering |
Based in Worcester. |
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BJ Sherriff International |
Beekeepers' protective clothing. |
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Bristol Bottle Co Ltd |
Honey jar and bottle distributors, agents & suppliers. |
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Brushy Mountain Bee Farm Inc |
You want it, we've got it -- beekeeping supplies and beekeeping equipment! |
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Caddon Hives |
This web site is designed to provide you with up to the minute information about our activities and products. Please feel free to call, e-mail or visit us. |
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Circomb |
Equipment and materials for round section comb honey production. |
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Cook & Beals Inc |
Customers around the world look to Cook & Beals for their honey processing needs. |
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D Cottrill Bee Supplies |
Manufactures hives and sells common items at very competitive prices. Always ring first. |
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Cowen Manufacturing Company Inc |
Commercial extracting equipment. |
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Dadant & Sons |
Dadant and Sons, Inc. is a family owned business that has served the Beekeeping industry for 137 years. |
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Ernie's Beehives |
Our WBC beehives are lovingly constructed and come fully assembled and painted. |
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Fischer's Bee-Quick |
Fischer's Bee-Quick is a "bee repellent" (we dislike the term
"bee repellent", but everyone uses it). |
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Fragile Planet |
Our mission is to be an inexpensive one-stop shop for beekeepers. |
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Freeman & Harding Ltd |
Distributors of glass jars to the food & pharmaceutical industries. |
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French Flint & Ormco Ltd |
A leading UK distributor of glass and plastics packaging products. |
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Carl Fritz |
In German. |
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Glenn Apiaries |
Honeybees that Suppress
Mite Reproduction (SMR) Smart Queens In April 2001 Glenn Apiaries entered
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Glorybee |
In 1975, Richard Turanski, a third generation beekeeper, made the transition from hobbyist to businessman and founded GloryBee® Foods, Inc. One of the reasons he became a beekeeper and honey lover was his sincere belief that natural foods were the most beneficial to the consumer. |
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C Wynne Jones |
Suppliers of bees and queens. |
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KBS |
Beekeeping equipment. Foundation manufacturer. |
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A & P Kinsey Bee Supplies |
Purebred Carniolan queens a speciality. |
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Locker Wire Weavers Ltd |
Long established manufacturer of woven wire cloth and has been based in the Warrington area for more than 120 years. |
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Maisemore Apiaries |
Major producers and suppliers of quality beekeeping equipment and beeswax foundation. |
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Mann Lake Ltd |
US supplier of equipment and wax. |
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Maxant Industries |
Maxant Industries of Ayer Mass, is a leading manufacturer of high-quality equipment for honey processing, rock and gem cutting and polishing, and wax moulding. |
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Milwaukee Meters |
Honey refractometer. |
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National Beekeeping Supplies Ltd |
Based in Exeter. Noted for high quality woodwork. |
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Park Beekeeping Supplies |
Equipment and bees. Showroom at Blackheath. |
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Peak Hives |
...beekeeping in as environmentally friendly way possible. we make hives either out of western red cedar because traditionally that's what they've been made from or from locally sourced larch from the peak district. |
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Plastok (Meshes and Filtration) Ltd |
Wide range of plastic and metal meshes for screens and filtration. |
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Plastools |
The Hackler Honey Punch is a hand held uncapping device that is designed to puncture holes into the individual cells of capped honey. The opening left by the Honey Punch has been proven to be more than sufficient to allow the honey to be removed by conventional extractors. |
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Potter & Soar Ltd |
Very large range of wire cloth and mesh, including stainless steel. |
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Rauchboy |
German manufacturer of high quality smokers. |
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Rossman Apiaries |
Cypress Beekeeping Supplies |
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Ross Rounds |
The finest in comb honey production. |
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Solway Bee Supplies |
We are now able to offer a full range of quality Cedar Hives made in our own workshop or budget hives made from exterior ply wood and are putting together a range of Bee Keeping Sundries. Our aim is to provide quality beekeeping equipment at competitive prices with a first class service. |
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Stamfordham Ltd |
Quality hives at knockout prices. |
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Swienty A/S |
Danish supplier of high quality beekeeping equipment since 1981. |
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Technika |
Honey refractometer. |
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Thomas |
Thomas, creators of the first electric extractor in 1954, are pioneers in beekeeping equipment, especially in the field of extraction and uncapping. All the machines sold by Thomas fulfil the following criteria: various functions, reliability, easy cleaning and maintenance. |
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Thorne (Beehives) Ltd |
The name of Thornes has been synonymous for decades with quality beekeeping equipment, candlemaking supplies, and accessories. |
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Vita (Europe) Ltd |
Vita (Europe) Limited was formed in 1997 by Jeremy Owen and Dr. Max Watkins. Vita (Europe) Limited operates out of the U.K., with a primary interest in supplying bee health products and instruction on their correct usage to a world market. Manufacture Apistan and Apiguard. |
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R Weaver Apiaries Inc |
R Weaver Apiaries, Inc. was founded in 1888. It was established at the Lynn Grove Community in Texas, by Z.S. Weaver and his new bride, Florence, when they received ten hives as a wedding present. |
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BFP Wholesale Ltd |
Fondant for winter feed at very competitive prices. |
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Bradshaws Direct |
Tarpaulins and covers for garden furniture, ropes, garden ponds, pumps, lighting etc - all at excellent prices. |
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Brunel Microscopes |
The one stop shop for microscopists. |
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CCL Veloduct Ltd |
Supply pipes and ducting suitable for replacing pipes for bee blowers. |
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Cuprinol Ltd |
Wood preservatives. |
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David Bowyer's Off-road Centre |
Everything for off-roading at discount prices. |
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Ecostat Ltd |
We consider ourselves world leaders in in the manufacture of equipment for the successful small scale hatching and rearing of reptiles and poultry. Our unique temperature control units provide a stable environment for the hatching process, with the added bonus of being extremely efficient in power consumption. |
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Hancock's Marking Media |
Make timber-marking crayons - very useful for marking hives. |
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Lakeland |
Gas lighters - throw away your matches! |
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Pestaway |
Insectaflash and Exocutor insect killers at discount prices. |
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Protec Direct |
Protective workwear at excellent prices, both outdoor and for use in the honey-house. Good source for latex and nitrile gloves. |
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RS Components |
Useful for control equipment. |
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Treatt & Co Ltd |
Source for thymol. |
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Univar (was Ellis & Everard Ltd) |
The United Kingdom's pre-eminent chemical products and services provider. Source for acetic acid at very competitive prices. |
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Vigo Ltd |
Commercial wine making equipment. Presses, hoses and connectors that are very useful in the honey house. 12 ton press is excellent for heather honey and they will make the collecting tray deeper so that the honey does not overflow. |
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Australian Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation |
The Honeybee Research and Development Program will support innovative and focussed research and development projects, which will contribute to the productivity, sustainability and profitability of the Australian beekeeping industry. |
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Central Science Laboratory (CSL) |
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DEFRA's Bee Health Programme |
Executive summary, stating that Bee health is a public good and indicating that the prime responsibility is likely to fall to government. Gives the value of beekeeping, through pollination, as £120 million in England. |
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DEFRA - Introduction to Personal Food and Plant Imports |
Welcome to the Defra Personal Food and Plant Imports website. Our aim is to reduce the risk of exotic animal diseases, plant pests and diseases entering the country and then threatening our public health, livestock, agriculture and horticultural industries and the environment. |
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Environment Agency |
Are you at risk of flooding? Find out here, as well as how to prepare for flooding and current flood warnings in force. |
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EU Food and Feed Safety |
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) is a system which has been in place since 1979. The purpose of the RASFF is to provide the control authorities with an effective tool for exchange of information on measures taken to ensure food safety. |
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Food Labelling Regulations 1996 |
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Food Standards Agency |
Guidance notes on Food Labelling. |
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Food Standards Agency |
Guidance notes on Honey Labelling. |
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Food Standards Agency |
Criteria for the use of the terms Fresh, Pure, Natural etc. |
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Food Standards Agency |
Criteria for the use of the terms Fresh, Pure, Natural etc (Full pdf document). |
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Honey (England) Regulations 2003 |
Criteria for the use of the terms Fresh, Pure, Natural etc (Full pdf document). |
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) |
Did you know that you can register voluntarily for VAT, even if your turnover is low? You can then reclaim VAT on purchases, but will not pay any VAT if you sell only honey. |
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National Bee Unit (NBU) |
Located in the Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York. |
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NationalRural |
NationalRural was established in 2004 as a Knowledge Exchange - a service provided by universities and colleges for rural businesses and organisations. |
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North Carolina Department of Agriculture |
Apiary services |
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Trading Standards Central |
Guidance notes for honey packers: |
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
Main searchable website. |
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USA Beekeeping Industry Report |
The beekeeping industry in the United States |
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USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service |
This file contains the annual report of the number of colonies producing honey, yield per colony, honey production, average price, price by color class and value; honey stocks by state and U.S. |
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Western Australia, Department of Agriculture |
The Exotic Bee threat. |
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Africanised Honey Bees |
The University of Arizona Africanised Honey Bee Education Project |
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Agricola |
Agricola (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. |
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Agrifor |
The UK's gateway to high quality Internet resources in Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Links to documents about varroa. |
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Apiculture & Social Insect Laboratory |
Laboratory within the Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, Sheffield University, U.K. specialising in research into apiculture, honey bees, social insects and social behaviour. |
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Apiculture Division of the Agricultural University - Warsaw |
The races of honeybee. |
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Baylor College of Medicine |
The HGSC is currently sequencing the honey bee, Apis mellifera. The honey bee is important in the agricultural community as a producer of honey and as a facilitator of pollination. It is a model organism for studying the following human health issues: immunity, allergic reaction, antibiotic resistance, development, mental health, longevity and diseases of the X chromosome. In addition, biologists are interested in the honey bee's social instincts and behavioral traits. |
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Bees in the Curriculum (bees4kids) |
The aim of this web site is to help children, teachers and parents come to value bees. It unashamedly encourages children to contribute to its pages while providing sound scientific information to help them do this. It builds on the "Bees in the Curriculum" Schools Pack, published in 1999. |
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Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory |
Major US bee research laboratory. |
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Biology of the Honeybee |
A very nice summary by Ross Koning. |
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Carl Hayden Bee Research Center |
The Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson A.Z. has launched a new public service called Expert Forum on Honey Bees. Expert Forum on Honey Bees is a state of the art, user-friendly electronic question and answer information resource available to all at no cost via the Internet. |
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Cornell University Library |
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. |
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Cornell University Library |
The Phillips' Beekeeping Collection at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library is one of the largest and most complete apiculture libraries in the world. The Hive and the Honey Bee grew out of a presentation on the Phillips collection at the 2002 Eastern Apiculture Society conference and is something of a digital child of that print collection. At present, it consists of the full text of ten rare books from the Phillips Collection, and each book is fully searchable. |
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Institute of Arable Crops Research (IACR) |
The mission of IACR is to be a leading provider of high quality scientific research relevant to plant-based agriculture with the objective of achieving improvements in rural and agricultural economies that are financially, environmentally and socially sustainable. |
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International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) |
UK Section. |
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International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) |
North American Section. |
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Logan Utah USDA Bee Lab |
The United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) Agricultural Research Service (A.R.S.), Northern Plains Area (N.P.A.), was founded in the late 1940s as part of the alfalfa seed production unit. We focus primarily on pollination research with bees. Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory (B.B.S.L.). |
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Michigan State University - Department of Entomology |
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Michigan State University - Department of Entomology |
Paper on the waggle dance. |
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Michigan State University - Department of Entomology |
A hard-to-detect pheromone explains a phenomenon Michigan State University entomologist Zachary Huang published 12 years ago – that somehow older forager bees exert influence over the younger nurse bees in a hive, keeping them grounded until they are more mature, and thus more ready to handle the demands of buzzing about. |
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Michigan State University - Department of Entomology |
Talks by Zachary Huang: |
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North Carolina State University |
Beekeeping notes including one on reducing stings. |
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Ohio State University |
Listen to queens piping (Sights & Sounds)- note that this is a large file and will take a long time to download. Good 'Fact Sheets' and download of the USDA publication 'Swarm Control' (now out of print) available. |
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Greg Hunt's page. The research program focuses primarily on honey bee behavioral genomics. My lab has made the first and most comprehensive genetic maps of the honey bee genome. |
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Rothamsted Research |
Rothamsted is the largest agricultural research centre in the United Kingdom and almost certainly the oldest agricultural research station in the world. |
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Swiss Bee Research Centre |
The Swiss Bee Research Centre works on current subjects of beekeeping praxis. With this web site we would like to offer our research results to all concerned. We hope that you will find answers to your questions. (Good material on varroa.) |
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Our mission is 1) to conduct researches on wide ranges of topic concerning honeybees, the most important insect in natural resource entomology, and 2) to develop education and to provoke general interest on honeybees and their products. |
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The Physical and Theoretical |
Chemical and Other Safety Information. Acetic acid here. |
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University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources website section dealing with bees and bugs. Many excellent pictures. |
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Bee biology website. |
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Information on small hive beetle. |
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Links to sites developed by the University - mainly on pests. |
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Silver Medal Winning Website, Apimondia Congress, |
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The purpose of this brief chapter is to provide a handshake overview of what insecticides are, and a short background and a review of the major insecticide classes that have been or are used today to cope with insect pests. Though by no means exhaustive, we will touch on major classes and technologies whether decades old or recently revealed. |
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We use bees and portable computers to assess environmental hazards through
the development of electronic hives, toxicological models, extensive
databases, and pattern-recognizing software that help assess risks posed by
metals, radiation, biologicals, and chemicals, including industrial,
military, and agricultural (pesticides) materials. |
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Our on-line beehives are fitted with cameras and flight counters and are paired with weather stations. We are working with zoological parks and natural history museums in an effort to provide a global network of hives that can be used to involve children, their parents, teachers, and beekeepers in interactive educational and hands-on research programs involving bees. |
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Honey bees have recently received considerable attention from the popular press as an innovative method to detect a variety of explosives, landmines and UXO. Many of these reports are inaccurate and may encourage individuals and demining groups to “sell” a service that they poorly understand or lack the experience to properly apply. As the developers of this technology, we offer the following summary about the current status of this alternative for landmine detection, including its strengths and limitations. |
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A set of 18 honey bee trading cards are available from the Nebraska Beekeepers Association for youth education. In plain and simple language, they explain the honey bee's amazing life history, how bees make honey, and the importance of bee-pollination. |
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Associate Professor Ben Oldroyd's pages: |
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A great deal of information on honey research, especially the healing powers of honey. Section on Manuka - of course! |
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Acarine |
Good pictures from Jan Templeton. |
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Allen Dick |
Article on selecting for hygienic behaviour. |
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D.L. Anderson and J.W.H. Trueman |
A new name, V. destructor n. sp., is given to six haplotypes that
infest A. cerana on mainland Asia. Adult females of V. destructor
are significantly larger and less spherical in shape than females of V.
jacobsoni and they are also reproductively isolated from females of V.
jacobsoni. |
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Apis Newsletter |
Article on the dangers of formic acid. |
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Drone Comb Trapping |
... and how to eat the drone pupae (and the varroa mites presumably!) |
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Essential Oils for Varroa |
From Beeworks.com. |
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GEARS |
Article on Acarine (Tracheal Mite - Acarapis Woodii). |
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The Hamilton Menthol Board uses a combination of the two best methods of mite control. It is a combination of menthol dissolved in hydrogenated vegetable oil. |
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Heilyser Technology Ltd |
Oxalic acid vaporisers for varroa control. |
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Honey B Healthy |
Our mission is to find an effective treatment regime using natural organic
compounds to control parasitic mites and pathogens in honeybee colonies in
North-eastern |
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Hygienic Queens |
In this article, we present a simple way of screening colonies for hygienic
behavior. We also discuss some frequently asked questions about the behavior,
and how to breed hygienic colonies. |
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IAHAC |
The International Apis Health Assessment Committee (IAHAC) is a committee of the International Commission for Plant-Bee Relationships (ICP-BR), Bee Protection Group. |
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Kohala Net |
Excellent photographs of disease. |
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MiteGone |
The MiteGoneTM dispenser is a liquid evaporator that allows for
the twenty-one or forty-day commercial treatment of the Varroa and Tracheal
mites using Formic acid. |
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Recommendations the control of Varroa and Small Hive Beetles. |
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OIE Manual of Standard Diagnostic Tests |
The OIE is an intergovernmental organisation created by the International
Agreement of |
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Open Mesh Floors |
This text was mainly written by Ken Hoare and is published on Dave Cushman's site. |
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Oxalic Acid |
Information in English on the German field trials. |
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Oxamite |
Varroa strip treatment based on oxalic acid. |
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P-O Gustafsson |
Good pictures of the Varrox Oxalic Acid Vaporiser. |
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PubMed Central |
Prevalence and seasonal variations of six bee viruses in Apis mellifera L. and Varroa destructor mite populations in France. Viruses surveyed were: Deformed Wing Virus (DWV), Sacbrood Virus (SBV), Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus (CBPV), Acute Bee Paralysis Virus (ABPV), Black Queen Cell Virus (BQCV) and Kashmir Bee Virus (KBV). |
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Science News |
Article on Russian Bees and Varroa |
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Small Hive Beetle |
Pictures from Google. |
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Swiss Bee Research Centre |
A look under the cap: the reproductive behaviour of varroa in the capped brood of the honeybee. |
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Vita ( |
Vita ( |
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WaspBane |
The WaspBane wasp trap is the result of more than 6 years of design and experimentation. The apparently simple design hides a host of features each exploiting particular aspects of wasp behaviour which makes WaspBane probably the most efficient wasp trap available on the market today. Given that wasps are a dangerous insect, the design of WaspBane has been built entirely around user safety so much so that WaspBane is also probably the safest wasp trap on the market to date. |
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Argentine |
Malka queens |
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Bee Improvement & Bee Breeders' Association (BIBBA) |
BIBBA was originally founded in 1964 for the conservation, restoration,
study, selection and improvement of the native and near native honeybees of |
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Buckfast Marken |
Dutch group breeding Buckfast Bees. |
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Dave Cushman |
Methods of queen raising. |
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Ezi Queen Systems |
The Ezi Queen & Royal Jelly System was conceived in 1992 by Beekeeper
Tony Fraser-Jones who operates a Beekeeping business in the native |
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Georgian |
Our breeding station is located in Imereti, one of the regions of |
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Hawaiian Queen Company |
Hawaiian Queen Company, Inc. is your source for the Ultimate Queen. Breeding, selection and location combined, enable us to offer these awesome queens. We know that honey production and pollination capabilities are the bottom line in beekeeping and this is the the foremost goal of all our selection efforts. |
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Honeybee Improvement Program |
A co-operative breeding effort taking on what Brother Adam called the "inescapable challenge" breeding a Varroa mite resistant strain of honeybee. Written by Jack Griffes, HIP Founder and Breeding Co-ordinator. |
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International Association for the Protection of the European Dark Bee |
Several attempts have been maintained for saving the Swedish native bee, but earlier difficulties have stopped the efforts. In 1990 Projekt NordBi was started. |
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Kona Queen Hawaii, Inc. |
Kona Queen Company was founded in 1976 on the leeward (Kona) coast of the largest island of the Hawaiian chain. |
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A & P Kinsey Bee Supplies |
Purebred Carniolan queens a speciality. |
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Midnite Bee |
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Honeybee breeding programme - by Susan W Cobey. |
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Ohio Queen Breeders |
At Ohio Queen Breeders, we specialize in the production of instrumentally inseminated breeder queens and instrumental insemination equipment. |
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Queen Rearing for Hobby and Commercial Beekeepers |
A simple queen rearing technique. |
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Steve Taber |
Well known bee breeder and writer. |
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USDA Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Laboratory |
The mission of the Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research Unit is directed to improving honey bee stock and honey bee management related to stock improvement. |
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Vivian's Honey Farm |
Suppliers of bees and queens. Based in Okehampton, Devon. |
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CBeeWing |
Computerised bee wing morphology to check the degree of hybridisation for the selection of breeding stock. Excellent program together with information on selecting bees for breeding. |
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DrawWing |
DrawWing is scientific software for automatic measurements of insects wings. It can be used by beekeepers for discrimination of honeybee subspecies. Calculates indices from a scanned image without the need for clicking on all the wing vein junctions. Used with MorphPlot (below) it will provide a complete analysis. |
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MorphPlot (Version 2.2) |
Excel spreadsheet program written by Peter Edwards and designed to be used with DrawWing
(above). Provides analysis and graphs of the results file obtained from
DrawWing. Instructions included in the file. A version modified by Philipp Maier specifically for Apis mellifera carnica is available here. |
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Stud Book (Version 3.45) | Excel spreadsheet program written by Peter Edwards to enable detailed records of performance and assessment of traits to be kept and analysed for queen rearing. Full information and instructions here. |
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Bee working Borage |
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Citrus Pollination |
Malcolm T Sanford, |
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CNN Article on Disappearing Pollinators |
Earth Matters: Pollinator decline puts world food supply at risk, experts warn. |
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Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants |
S.E. McGregor, USDA. Originally published 1976. |
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Naturescape |
Naturescape wild flower farm produces numerous native species of wildflowers and grasses, seed collections, meadows, lawns, climbers, wild rose plants, shrubs, trees, hedge plants, pond, marsh, bulbs, corms and more. |
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Designed and planted with the cooperation of The Ohio State University
(OSU) and Tri-County Beekeepers' Association, the |
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PalDat |
Palynological Database. An online publication of the Society for the Promotion of Palynological Research in Austria. At present PalDat provides 11510 pictures of 1435 recent species, belonging to 792 genera, and 124 pictures of 32 fossil forms, belonging to 20 fossil genera. |
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Pl@nteinfo |
Pl@nteInfo is a Danish information and decision support system for Danish farmers and agricultural advisers. Most of the information is generated dynamically with models using frequently updated databases. |
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Planting a |
By Stephen Buchmann. ( |
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Palynology. |
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Aventis Crop Science |
Aventis claim to encourage innovation to be leading the way with ground breaking technology, providing new solutions and a new approach to agriculture. |
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Genetically Modified Food Jump Page |
Comprehensive links page for information on GM crops. |
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Journal of Apicultural Research |
Paper: Effects of dietary transgenic Bt corn pollen on larvae of Apis mellifera and Galleria mellonella. |
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Monsanto vs. Schmeiser |
Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from |
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Natural Law Party |
Will GM crops deliver benefits to farmers? |
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Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology |
Many billions of genetically engineered organisms have already been released over vast areas on all continents. The industry and scientific experts cooperating with them maintain that they are safe to the environment. But are they really? |
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The Soil Association |
The Association's view on Genetic Engineering. |
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The page says it all! |
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Every summer since 1998, genetically engineered crops have been planted on
millions of acres of |
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E. Ann Clark - various anti-GM papers: l0 Reasons Not to Grow GE Crops . |
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USDA |
Adoption of Bioengineered Crops. |
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The World of GMOs - How it Relates to Beekeeping |
Comprehensive paper by Dr Malcolm T Sanford. |
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Worldwatch Institute |
Search for GM. |
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American Apitherapy Society |
The American Apitherapy Society serves our membership and the medical
profession by: |
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Apitherapy and Multiple Sclerosis |
A testimony from Donna Chandler. |
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Apitherapy.com |
This web site has been established to provide information on all aspects of apitherapy. |
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Apitronic Services |
Bee venom therapy, supplies and books. |
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BeeHealthy |
Living well and being healthy is our personal goal and the purpose of our company. We recognise the medicinal and nutritional benefits of products from the beehive and offer them to you at discount prices!! |
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Bees for Life |
Bees for Life: World Apitherapy Network is an international voluntary organization of professionals and lay people who seek to promote the therapeutic use of bee products: honey, wax, pollen, beebread, propolis, apitoxin or bee venom, drone larvae, and royal jelly. |
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Bee in Balance |
Bee in Balance was written out of love-for those suffering with chronic pain who might be helped by a wonderful discovery I made four years ago-apitherapy (the use of honeybee products for medicinal purposes) married to the ancient art of acupuncture. I call this technique "bee acupuncture." |
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Beelief |
Natural Health and Healing from the Honeybee. |
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Bee Venom Therapy Home Page |
Apitronic Services is your primary supplier of bee venom therapy materials. |
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BeeVital |
James Fearnley, the founder of BeeVital, has been involved in natural medicine since the early 1970's. In 1992 he co founded a company specialising in propolis and was responsible for the renaissance of interest in propolis as a modern day medicine. |
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Medihoney |
Novel product using honey for various medicinal purposes. |
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Potentiated |
Welcome to potentiated.com - bringing you the finest bee pollen,
nature's most complete nutritional supplement, direct to you from clean,
green |
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3 Bees Honey |
Good recipes. |
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Adam Finkelstein's Home Page |
When I'm not working as a Systems Engineer, I enjoy playing with Honey Bee genetics and observing Honey Bee behaviour. |
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Adee Honey Farms |
Adee Honey Farms is the largest beekeeping business in the |
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Africanised honeybees |
The accidental introduction of non-native Africanized honeybees (AHB) and
their range expansion through the |
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Airborne Honey Ltd |
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Alan Wood's web site |
Comprehensive classification of pesticides etc. |
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Allen Dick's site - a mine of information. |
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Ancient Beehives |
Catalogue of ancient hives. |
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Apimo Biavl |
Beekeeping software and Pollen data software. |
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Apiservices |
Major French website (English version). Send a beekeeping postcard. |
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Arts Encaustic International |
Michael Bossom started working with wax in 1986/7. After more than 4 years
of developing the techniques and marketing of Encaustic Art he invited Cor
van Empel to come and meet him in |
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Badass Bees |
A miscellany about bees. |
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BBC - Climate change experiment |
Your computer can perform billions of calculations a second. Donate the potential you're not using, and take part in the world's largest climate experiment. |
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BBC - Honey Recipes |
Honey is one of the most extraordinary and ancient foods on the planet. Humans have sought out this delectable source of sweetness since Stone Age hunters raided wild honeybee nests. It is a completely natural product made by bees gathering and concentrating down the nectar of many thousands of plants. To gather enough to make just one 500g pot, the bees may travel a distance equivalent to flying around the world three times. |
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Beautiful Honey Pots |
A collection of over 400 honey pots. |
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BeeAware.info |
Beeaware.info was founded by
Kerry Bramble. Kerry is a migratory beekeeper located in |
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Bee Basics |
Worker, drone, queen, behaviour, anatomy. |
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Bee coins |
Home page of Piet Vanmarsenille. |
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Bee Health Ltd |
Bee Health is the world's leading supplier of Propolis products. It is a British company with outstanding international service and quality records. It has successfully focused on a naturally occurring substance and harvested it to a consistent quality without compromising its natural properties. |
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Bee Hexagon |
This is the personal website of the bee product scientist Stefan Bogdanov.
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Beehoo |
www.beehoo.com is the world's beekeeping directory. It is dedicated to all the people interested in beekeeping issues. |
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Beekeeping: The Beekeeper's Home Pages |
Beekeeping: The Beekeeper's Homepages is updated about every month and is
maintained in |
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Beekeeping the |
See how things used to be in the 'Good Old Days'. |
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Beemorph |
Computerised bee wing morphology to check the degree of hybridisation for the selection of breeding stock. |
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Bee-O-Sphere Technologies |
After years of studying bee behavior related to honey comb production, Bee-O-Sphere has launched an innovative comb honey package called the Bee-O-Pac. |
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Bee Photos |
Some very good photos from Jelena and Oliver from |
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Bee Plus Ltd |
Bee Plus Ltd is based in Hampton within the London Borough of Richmond, West London, UK |
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Bee poisoning page |
From Beesource.com |
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Bees in Art |
The world’s first art gallery devoted to Honey bees, Bumble bees and other
Hymenoptera depicted in art. |
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Bees Abroad |
Bees Abroad is a |
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Bees for Development |
Bees for Development is helping people in poor and remote areas of the world to use the craft of beekeeping to help improve their standard of living. |
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Beeline |
John and Judy Dobson operate Beeline Limited from Kereru in
Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. |
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Bees and Trees |
Paul Hand is very much the public face of 'Bees and Trees'. It is Paul who meets with people involved in projects and who teaches and gives talks in schools and at meetings. |
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Bees-Online |
Albert Needham's site aims to educate the public about bees. |
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Beesource |
Online sourcebook for beekeeping (US). Contributions by a number of leading US beekeepers. Worth exploring. |
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Beesource - Wenner |
Dr Adrian Wenner on the dance language controversy. |
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Bee Tools |
We're first and foremost, beekeepers. Now that we are a little older (and
hopefully a little wiser) we work hard at keeping our operation from
expanding beyond 50+ colony operation in |
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Bee Vacuum Construction |
"These are really easy to make and are completely invaluable in catching hard-to reach swarms or removing existing hives." |
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Bee Venom Collection |
In the past sixteen years we have built several types of collector devices to obtain insect venom and in the last eight years we have made them available to venom collectors. |
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Billybee Honey |
Billy Bee Honey has been involved in the honey business for over three
generations. There has been over 80 years of experience in learning all there
is to know about the honey business from production to marketing. |
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The BioImage Database |
The BioImage Database is part of the European Commission-funded ORIEL Project (Online Research Information Environment for the Life Sciences), which, as the research arm of E-BioSci, is developing tools and procedures to promote access to and integration and retrieval of high-quality digital biological information. Within this, the BioImage Database will provide the scientific community with a freely-accessible database of multidimensional digital http://www.sbkaimages.homecall.co.uk of biological research relevance with deep descriptive metadata, using the latest Semantic Web technology. |
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Biohttp://www.sbkaimages.homecall.co.uk - The Official Journal of the BioImaging Society |
Provides a forum mainly for original reports on biological imaging, and is devoted to the publication of practical and theoretical papers on the development of imaging methods and their applications to the fields of biological and medical sciences. |
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Biohttp://www.sbkaimages.homecall.co.uk - Virtual Field-Guide ( |
Content: This site offers a large selection of pictures of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin. Purpose: The http://www.sbkaimages.homecall.co.uk are presented to illustrate biodiversity and as an aid to identification. While pictures alone are generally NOT sufficient for identification, by showing different stages, states and views of the organisms more information can be offered than is available in field-guides. |
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Biological Records Centre |
The Biological Records Centre (BRC), established in 1964, is the
national focus in the |
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Bosse in |
Good photos. Text in Swedish. |
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British Crop Protection Council |
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Buckfast Abbey |
Brother Adam's main aim behind his work with bees was to produce a special kind of bee. This special kind of bee became known as the Buckfast Bee™, which is a good honey producer, does not sting much, and is resistant to Acarine. |
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Burleson's Honey Homehive |
Bee sure to visit Healthy Living for seasonal and special feature recipes using Burleson's Honey, along with beauty and body care tips. We've added all new barbecue recipes for Spring 2001, and brought some old favourites out again! |
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Capilano Honey |
Australian site with detailed information about the process of honey, educational material, honey facts and nutritional characteristics of honey |
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Cambridge Traditional Products was set up in 1979 by Primary school teacher and beekeeper, Adrian Perkins, having discovered an original 19th. Century recipe for beeswax furniture polish, using natural ingredients. Using some beeswax from his hives, he made some polish to this recipe, and found that it obtained a superb silky finish on all kinds of wood, which out-performed all the products of the modern industrial chemist. |
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Canadian Association of Professional Apiarists |
Includes information of Economic Injury Levels for varroa in Canada. |
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CandlesOnTheWeb |
Candles and candlemaking supplies. |
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Canhwyllau Cymraeg |
Canhwyllau Cymraeg was set up in 1999 by Robert Parkinson to manufacture high quality beeswax candles. |
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Century Foundation |
Century Foundation was established on 28 February, 1996 in Bangalore, Southern India. It is a non-governmental and non-profit organization working for sustainable natural resource management and rural development |
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Chain Bridge Honey Farm |
At Chain Bridge Honey Farm, we know quite a bit about bees and the quality products they help to make - after all we've been working with them for over 50 years! In that time we've formed quite a partnership and have become well known the world over for the quality of our products. |
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Codex Alimentarius |
The Codex Alimentarius, or the food code, has become the seminal global reference point for consumers, food producers and processors, national food control agencies and the international food trade. The code has had an enormous impact on the thinking of food producers and processors as well as on the awareness of the end users - the consumers. Its influence extends to every continent, and its contribution to the protection of public health and fair practices in the food trade is immeasurable. |
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Comb Honey |
Novel method of producing comb honey from the honey in cappings. |
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Constructive Beekeeping |
Constructive Beekeeping: a new book on the DIY of beekeeping, anecdotal, and complemetary to the standard beekeeping textbooks. |
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Convert |
Beekeeping Conversions and 'Ready Reckoner' from Nick Wallingford in New Zealand. |
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Convert It |
Not strictly beekeeping. This site converts and calculates almost anything - measurements, currency, time... |
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PdfConverter |
Another useful and very easy to use converter. |
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Crop Data Management Systems (CDMS) |
CDMS, Inc. is a privately held corporation located in Marysville,
CA. Founded in 1983, the company provides |
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Dancing Bee Acres |
60 Years And 4 Generations Of Product Knowledge |
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David Campbell's site |
Good site about breeding Apis mellifera mellifera in East Sussex using instrumental insemination. |
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David Cushman's site |
Established |
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Interactive insect identification fun from Rothamsted. |
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DARG's primary aim is to collect, analyse and report on data concerning matters of topical or contemporaneous interest which may aid the apicultural education of its members and contribute to the advancement of beekeeping. Members also undertake research projects to further the group's aims and disseminate their findings by publishing them in inexpensive booklets and other media, so that other beekeepers may benefit. |
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Educational charts - including bees. |
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Sole suppliers of honey to the White House! |
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Our mission is to provide you with the best bee products on the market today. There are many providers of honey products out there today but very few that are actually beekeepers. We provide quality products at very fair prices. |
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Ear-Candle.co.uk |
If you are looking for a homeopathic ear treatment, ear candles could be just thing! |
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Ezyloader from Billet |
This patented and award-winning device is perfect for many lifting needs in rural, industrial and commercial settings. |
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English Nature |
This is English Nature's interactive map site. In the MAPS tab you will discover a choice of maps about nature, including National nature reserves, other kinds of protected sites and areas of semi-natural habitat |
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Essex Wildlife Trust |
Gardening for bees. |
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Extoxnet |
Various types of pesticide toxicology and environmental chemistry
information are available from the WWW server at |
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Free Formulas |
(... or even 'formulae'). Taken from Elaine White's book, "Super Formulas, Arts and Crafts" |
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Galtee Bee Breeding Group |
The group has aims that include the study, conservation, and improvement of the strains of the Dark European Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera L.) that are native to Ireland and the UK. |
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George Imirie - Certified Master Beekeeper |
'Pink pages' written in George's inimitable style (i.e. vast amounts of CAPITAL LETTERS). |
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Georgia Honey Corporation |
Our goal is to bring you the best Raw Gourmet Honeys produced in the state
of |
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Got Mead? |
'I feel that GotMead is the most complete collection of mead information anywhere on the internet, and will continue to strive to expand and enhance the site in an effort to create a place where people can come to find out whatever it is that that seek about mead.' |
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Graham & Annie Law |
Observation hives, processing oilseed rape honey, running a bee show and more. Particularly useful for beginners. |
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Henry's Honey Farm |
Located in scenic |
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Hibernation Diet |
Eat honey - lose weight! |
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The Honey Association |
The |
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Honeycomb Cosmetics |
Honeycomb Cosmetics is an English company and began producing quality skin care products in 1975. |
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Honey Hill Farm |
Home of Handcrafted Honey and Beeswax Soaps. |
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Honeyhouse |
Deryck R. Johnson is a qualified beekeeper with over twenty years experience. His home apiary has been on the same site in Wimbish all this time. |
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Honey International Packers Association (HIPA) |
HIPA has three clear objectives |
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Honeystix from Glorybee Foods |
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Honeywine.com |
Here you can find information on over 25 Meaderies, and place orders for over 20 meads listed |
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IBRA - Bee boles register |
Records of bee boles and other beekeeping structures built in the past. Started by Dr Eva Crane in 1952, the Register now contains paper records for over 1300 sites, and photographic prints and/or transparencies for most of them. |
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Insectclopedia |
More than you ever wanted to know about insects. Many links. |
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Insect http://www.sbkaimages.homecall.co.uk |
The Source for Entomology Photos. A joint project of the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service. |
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Insectnet |
The purpose of this site is to provide a convenient, low cost forum for entomologists, insect collectors, insect hobbyists, traders, and dealers. Other invertebrates, such as tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes, etc., all welcome! |
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Disclaimer: The Department of Entomology at |
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Islapro |
Page of words for honey from different languages. |
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IWFmediacatalogue |
The IWFmediacatalogue provides various search options to look through our great collection of films, videos, CD-ROMs and DVDs. Some media can be previewed online free of charge with standard media players. Most media are for sale and are available even in other formats than indicated. Go to beekeeping under 'environmental sciences/ecology'. |
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Jan Templeman's Site |
Varied and interesting material, good photographs. |
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John Caldeira's beekeeping notebook |
Interesting material on beekeeping in |
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Kids' Health |
Information on Infant Botulism. |
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Kohala Net |
Good pictures of bees, catching swarms, removing a wild colony and diseases. Recipe section. |
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Mead Made Complicated |
Make and taste mead (honey wine) with meadmadecomplicated.org; or learn about the history of the drink of the gods or the science involved in mead making. |
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Mid-Atlantic Apiculture |
Not floating hives... The Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium (MAAREC) is a regional effort to address the pest management crisis facing the beekeeping industry in the Mid-Atlantic Region. |
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National Biodiversity Network |
The NBN is a project to build the |
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National Honey Board (US) |
Recipes, honey facts & trivia, good kids section. |
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National Honey Board (US) |
Brief review of filtration methods for honey. |
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Natural History of the Honeybee |
An introduction to understanding honeybees, their origins, evolution and diversity by Ashleigh Milner. |
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The Postcode Plants database. Simply by typing in the first three or four characters of their postcodes, householders, schools, garden centres and councils can obtain tailor-made lists of local plants, many of which are both hospitable to wildlife and suitable for gardens within their postal districts. |
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National Library of Scotland |
The Scottish Beekeepers’ Association has deposited the Moir Rare Book Collection of 233 volumes relating to all aspects of beekeeping. It is one of the very finest collections of rare beekeeping books in the world, including items published as far back as 1525. |
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NECTAR |
NECTAR is a non governmental, non-profit association of tropical
bee-keeping experts in the |
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New Scientist |
Secrets of bee flight revealed. |
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NOVA Online - Tales from the hive |
Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Tales from
the Hive," originally broadcast on Good pictures and film. |
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Nutriwatch |
Fact sheet from Health Canada on honey and infant botulism. |
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Offwell Woodland & Wildlife Trust |
Article about Rhododendron ponticum |
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Onlineconversion |
Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions. |
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Organic Gardening Catalogue |
Sells Phacelia Tanacetifolia seeds. |
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Orisinal - Bubble Bees |
Click on the bee. Should keep your children (or you) amused for hours! |
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Pesticide Action Network |
Pesticide Action Network |
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Pherobase |
Semiochemicals of Apis mellifera queen. |
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P-O Gustafsson Home Page |
Beekeeping in |
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Pollen Man |
Propolis, Pollen, Royal Jelly, Echinacea, Ginseng. |
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Pollinator.com |
Pollination information, pictures and a great deal more. Insect identification page, good pictures of hiving a wild colony, complete classification of bee genera etc. |
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Porteath Bee Centre, St Minver, Cornwall |
One of the simplest and most pleasurable aspects of the Porteath Bee Centre is that it gives you the chance to observe a load of bees going about their business. |
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Practical Action |
The values that we represent – practical answers to poverty, sustainable
solutions and people focused. |
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ProFlowers - The Beekeepers' Guide |
U.S. oriented, but covers a large range of beekeeping topics. |
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Quince Honey Farm |
Here in our world famous Honey Farm you can stand and watch these wild and wonderful creatures from the distant past. |
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Richard Webb |
Review of the characteristics of various races and strains of honeybee. US - does not include Apis mellifera mellifera! |
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Roger P@rsons |
Beekeeping in |
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Rowse Honey Ltd |
We invite you to explore our site and find out more about us, our products, and the fascinating world of honey. |
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Science News |
Toxins in honey - especially pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Mentions Borage (Borago
officinalis), |
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Small Cell Beekeeping |
Denis Murrell's site. |
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Small Farm Resource |
Pages on honeybees, bumble bees and orchard mason bees. |
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Sue Bee |
Sioux Honey Association. Send a postcard. |
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Sweetness & Light |
Bee Keepers and |
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The Amazing Beecam |
Beecam is an electronic CCD (Charged Coupling Device) camera we have trained on an observation hive in our laboratory. This camera periodically takes 26 snapshots of the bottom frame of bees at close range. Those frames are sent to you one after another as an almost-live animation. |
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The Bee Works |
The Bee Works promotes global discussions of pollinator importance by offering educational products, conducting pollinator surveys and pollinator restoration services to help restore our fragmented planet. |
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The Guide to Beekeeping for Adults and Kids |
Beekeeping is the term used to describe human maintenance of a colony of honeybees. A beekeeper usually keeps his bees in hives contained in a “bee yard.” The beekeeper maintains the beehives so that he can collect beeswax, honey, pollen and propolis. A beekeeper may also maintain the hives so that the bees will pollinate his crops. Finally, beekeepers may use the hives to produce new generations of bees for sale to other beekeepers. |
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The Hoogeveen Site of Honey Pots! |
At this moment our collection contains 500 different pots from all over the world! |
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Top Bar Hive Beekeeping |
This website is devoted exclusively to collecting and distributing information about beekeeping with top-bar hives (TBH's). TBH's offer many beekeepers an inexpensive but satisfying way of keeping bees that produces less (but better) honey and more beeswax. |
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Top Bar Observation Hives |
Observation hives are easily constructed when top bars are used. There are no frames to limit the size, no bee space to be concerned about except on the faces of the combs. |
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Phenology is the study of the times of recurring natural phenomena especially in relation to climate. It is recording when you heard the first cuckoo or saw the blackthorn blossom. This can then be compared with other records. |
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United Nations - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United
Nations |
Value-Added Products from Beekeeping. |
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Advice on removing honeybee nests. |
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USDA Plants Database |
The Plants Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. |
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Wakes Waxes |
Encaustic wax iron-effects; encaustic waxes & supplies by mail in the |
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Wax and Wane |
Handmade candles. |
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Wescobee |
The Wescobee Limited (formerly the Honey Pool of W.A.) has been in operation since 1926 and is exclusively owned by Western Australian beekeepers. |
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Wildlife Trusts in the |
The Wildlife Trusts is the largest grouping of charitable organisations in
the |
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It was as early as 1937, when the |
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Zach's Bee Photos |
Some of the best beekeeping photographs around - by Zachary Huang. |
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Bees of the World |
An updating bibliography of the bees of the world - Dr. Rajiv K Gupta. |
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Biological Beekeeping |
Joe Waggle's site. Mainly about small cell, but masses of other information. |
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Blue Orchard & Hornfaced Bees |
By D Walsh and W Chase. |
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Bumble Bee Nest Boxes |
Detailed plans. |
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Bumble Bees around the House |
Bumblebees from a |
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Bumble Bees Dying |
There’s due concern about the fact that bumble bees are dying in the United
States as well as other parts of the world. Researchers are baffled by the
phenomenon because there seems to be no clear evidence which explains why the
population of bumble bees is declining. In the commercial sense. |
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Bumble Boosters |
Bumble Boosters is a co-operative project of the University of Nebraska Department of Entomology, the Lincoln Public Schools Science Focus Program, and the Folsom Children's Zoo. It is Partially Funded by a grant from the Nebraska Lottery's Educational Innovation Fund. |
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Earth Life Web |
The Earth Life Web is a web site dedicated to supplying you with all the information you want about life on this planet. In short it is an encyclopaedia of life on earth. Pages on solitary bees. |
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Food and Agriculture Organisation |
Paper on honeybees of the genus Apis (florea, dorsata, cerana and mellifera). |
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Honey Hunting in |
BBC news report. |
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An annotated catalogue of the bees of the Indian region - Dr. Rajiv K Gupta. |
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Insectpix |
All about solitary bees and how to attract them to your garden. Good pictures. |
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Jan Templeman's Site |
How to manage solitary bees. |
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Kendall Bioresearch Services |
Dr David Kendall's site. Large amount of information on insects including honey, bumble, mining, mason, leafcutter and carpenter bees. |
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Knox Cellars |
The orchard mason bee. |
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Koppert Biological Systems |
Dutch company supplying bumblebees for pollination - and more. |
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The London Biodiversity Partnership is a group of public, private and voluntary organisations. Together we aim to conserve and enhance the capital's wildlife and natural places for future generations to benefit from and enjoy. |
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The flight of the Bumblebee. |
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Bumblebees site. There is an excellent identification guide here and the museum also offers an insect identification service. |
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The reasons for the decline of British bumblebees. |
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Mason bees page. The museum also offers an insect identification service. |
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Nature Explorer Article |
The Tualang Tree, the Giant Asian Honey Bees and the Hindu Myth of the Princess, Hitam Manis-- Dark Sweetness... |
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Operation Bumblebee |
Bumblebee populations on UK arable farms have declined by more than 70% over the past 30 years, primarily through loss of vital nectar food resources and nesting sites as cropping patterns have changed. One of the 20 bumblebee species has disappeared altogether, and three other species are on the verge of extinction. Now Operation Bumblebee, pioneered and funded by Syngenta, is set to put the habitat back and revive the fortunes of the humble bumblebee across the entire UK arable farming area. Over 1000 farmers are now being sought to join the new national scheme, with each committed to establishing at least a hectare (2.5 acres) of specific Operation Bumblebee seed mix. |
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Oxford Bee Company Ltd |
The Oxford Bee Company has designed bee nests specifically for the Red Mason Bee - a gentle beast that is a very effective pollinator. |
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Promabos - Meliponiculture |
PROMABOS works with local beekeepers at the development of meliponiculture
in the region. Practices that earlier have been developed at the |
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Science News Online |
Stingless bees of |
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Small Farm Resource |
Pages on honeybees, bumble bees and orchard mason bees. |
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The Bee Photographer |
Éric Tourneret's amazing bee photographs. |
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Universidade Federal de Viçosa |
Stingless honeybees. |
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Voices from the |
In September 1996, three beekeepers from |
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Wildebiene |
Excellent German site on wild bees with many good photographs. Non-German speakers can access it through Google Translate here. |
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Ixquick |
The world's most powerful metasearch engine. |
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Internet News Groups |
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