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Last site added/changed: 12 Dec 2001
Research project attempting to involve students to discover the
migratory routes of the AHB through Texas and other states bordering Mexico.
Tom Sanford provides a question and answer
article to provide factual information.
A useful and educational site with
projects related to bees and beekeeping for children (and adults!).
Information related to the
upcoming symposium.
The use of bee stings and venom in various forms of therapy.
Manufacturer of
apitherapy product based on honey, royal jelly, bee pollen, propolis and
medicinal herbs in France.
Durk Ellison's site, one of the finest reference sites for
information on apitherapy.
With links to various interesting published articles.
Site where you
can purchase honeybees for use in apitherapy.
Information about using bee venom in a therapeutic
manner.
Pages with a
particular emphasis on apitherapy.
Includes
honey (as well as maple syrup!) for sale.
Direct mail company for
all products from the hive i.e. bee pollen, active manuka honey, propolis,
bee venom, etc. Can mail world wide.
Manuka Honey is collected from the manuka bush
(leptospermum scoparium) in New Zealand, researched by Dr. Molan of the
Waikato University and found to naturally destroy staph, strep and h.pylori.
Bee Culture magazine, including some of the most recent
articles.
NZ's largest
packer and honey, with innovative approaches to marketing and high quality
packaging. Very nice people to deal with!
New Zealand company, the source of excellent woodware, as
distributed by Ecroyd's Beekeeping Supplies. A country with a long history
of involvement in the New Zealand beekeeping industry.
A site
in both Russian and English from a seller of honey and other beekeeping
products.
General information on honey and propolis.
Portuguese
language.
Virtual shopping for Brazilian beekeepers and general
information. Portuguese language.
Producers of
cell grafting kit to speed up queen rearing or royal jelly production
Bilingual beekeeping magazine. Five editions yearly with
current information about Argentine beekeeping.
Queen bee breeding business supplying queen bees to Australian
and
overseas beekeepers.
Texas
queenrearing and honey business
Yes, what can I say? Go see for yourself.
A 'one stop
shop' for ordering equipment and all other beekeeping related materials over
the Internet.
A variety of
bee and beekeeping related gifts for sale, including windsocks, books other
bee motif items.
'Bee Rig'
consisting of four colonies on a modular pallet like affair.
UK based company
with attractive informative site, including extensive information on propolis
and its use.
Honey, pollen, royal jelly and propolis products for sale.
A free listing service
for any/all honey producers in the world, as well as other bee stuff.
While this part of Allen Dick's site doesn't sell anything,
it might help you to buy or sell beekeeping equipment, etc!
Suppliers of a large range of bee-related giftware and
collectibles from
Europe, like honeypots, bee-jewelry, honeylabels, honeyspoons, ink stamps
and so on.
Ventilated
hives, T-Mite resistant queens.North American agents for E.H.Thorne UK.
Bernard
Michaud SA, Lune De Miel (tm), Miel L''Apiculteru (tm). Le miel, toute la
culture du miel.
Scandinavia's
leading wholesaler of beekeeping supplies. Own developed products include:
insemination apparatus, filling machines, heating devices.
Scandinavia's
leading wholesaler of beekeeping supplies. Own developed products include:
insemination apparatus, filling machines, heating devices, etc
This website is about Active Manuka Honey. Active Manuka Honey
is the type of manuka honey which has unique antibacterial properties
especially effective against helicobacter pylori (this bacteria is
responsible for stomach ulcers)
One
of the largest Canadian honey packers, and ships a lot to US markets as well.
Sherriff International (formerly B J Sherriff) site, with
info about their range of stock and prices.
Beekeeping books for sale.
Company, product and sales information from this Waikato, NZ,
based producer and packer.
Ohio based
company of Dr Ken Lightle, PhD.
Claims
to be the "Sweetest Web site in the world!". Selling honey, but also
includes kids' pages and recipes.
Lotions and
creams made with beeswax from Maine (USA).
Sales point for the EbeLift, a drum transporter system.
Includes business site listings for beekeepers.
Stewart Poole's site, describing the extractor control
systems he has available for sale. An excellent Kiwi product, well worth a
look.
Sales location for New Zealand's Airborne Honey in the US.
Iowa honey
producer's site with store, links and slideshows of beekeeping in
northeastern Iowa.
New
Zealand based company specialising in a variety of bee products. Beautiful
site!
Site to promote a book about 'do it yourself' beekeeping,
written by an UK beekeeper.
Creamy honey from South America. New product - Creamy Honey
with fruits.
Publishers of the
American Bee Journal, with information on beekeeping supplies and branches in
the US where the equipment is available.
Describes breeding techniques.
Honey for
sale from New Jersey
We make beautiful skin care products from Manuka honey and other
hive
products. We really are the first company IN THE WORLD to have used
Manuka honey in skin care - despite what some other companies are
claiming.
Honey from
upstate New York for sale.
Honey
Hill Farm sells homemade honey and beeswax soaps and other bath products.
Free brochure available.
An unforgettable place to visit! Honey and all other sorts of
bee and honey related products, a real attraction to our tourists and locals
alike.
Publishers of Charlie Mraz's book: Health and The Honeybee
and have a catalog named Honeybee Health Products that sells materials and
supplies for bee venom therapy and apitherapy.
Committed to
providing the most extensive listing of U.S. beekeepers and honey providers
available anywhere on the Internet.
Maryland honey for sale.
Includes information about honey use
New
company for beekeeping supplies.
Manuka, vipers bugloss, clover and comb honey for sale using a
secure server for credit card transactions.
The Madeleine Ritchie skin care company is one of the world
leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige natural honey skin care.
Pioneers of the worlds first manuka Honey skin care creams.
Argentine
breeder and exporter of fine queen bees. Italian and Caucasian queens. Mated
queens available from October 20 to April 10.
Single dose (<1
oz) honey packing machine from Croatia.
Equipment and beeswax supplier.
Long Island honey and some beekeeping supplies for sale.
Peter Lyttle
Manager. Specialist beeswax processing and manufacturing and exporting
company. Products include Comb foundation, Refined White and Yellow Beeswax,
Water washed Beeswax, Crude Beeswax, Organic certification from Bio-Gro and
CERTENZ. Also sell a wide range of beekeeping equipment.
English site for the sale of NZ manuka honey products.
Ohio Queen Breeders specialises in producing instrumentally
inseminated Cordovan Italian breeder queens. They have named their hybrid
line of Cordovan Italians the AUREA.
Commercial site that has beekeeping gloves. They are made in
Salem, Oregon, USA. Very high quality.
Honey from US midwest for sale.
Israeli queen
rearing business, with queens and HolyLand honey and other products of the
hive.
A variety of materials for sale and download.
Hobbyists from New Jersey with links to Scouting movement.
A
pollination company that collects pollen for nut and fruit orchards and puts
it back into the orchard most commonly by use of the beehive.
Propolis, pollen, royal jelly for sale.
A company with a
uniquely designed bee smoker to overcome the problems of smokerst that go out
when you most need them_
Alan and Gordon Redpath run Redpaths Beekeeping Supplies
with a history of over 30 years in the Victorian honey industry, supplying
honey and beekeeping equipment around SE Australia. New lines include candle
molds and paints to decorate the candles.
The production
and marketing of round sections for comb honey. Includes tips for production
and preparation of sections.
This site is the
site of Rossman Apiaries, Inc of Moultrie,Ga USA.It deals with package bees
and queens (Italian) and bee supplies (manufacturing hive components from
cypress wood.)
Ohio beekeepers and honey sales
Includes queens and packages for sale, along with other
beekeeping information.
Strathdale Honey established production in 1959 with only
2 hives. Today this family business has grown to become one of New Zealand's
largest exporters of certified organic clover honey, with over 1200 hives.
A comprehensive
and highly professional site that is well worth a visit. You can even send a
honey related "postcard" to another email user!
French equipment manufacturer
Home of one of the UK's primary equipment suppliers. Good
information about what is needed to start out in beekeeping.
Select Italian Queen Bee Producers and 100% pure and natural
Hawaiian honey
on the Big Island of Hawaii
Producer
and exporter of honey, both packed honey and bulk. Propolis, propolis
products. Live bees. Beeswax.
Western Australian honey sellers, with attactive and
informative site.
Woodlife II has
been used succesfully for the protection of hives against rot, and decay, and
controls against premature paint failure, and splitting or moving of wood,
and there are no
noticeable or known ill effects to bees.
Columbian
propolis emulsions in honey for sale.
Alaskan laws related to bees
and beekeeping equipment.
New Zealand's main bee legislation (now superceded to a
considerable extent by the Biosecurity Act).
Definitions and legal aspects of honey
descriptions.
US
Code related to research, promotion and consumer information
US Code related to honeybees
Legal regulations relating to honey and bees in
North Carolina.
Bylaw for the keeping of bees in built up area
A variety
of ordinances about beekeeping from San Diego.
Proposed USDA regulations for the use of 'organic' a a food
label.
"Beekeeper" discussion list for hobbyist and
commercial beekeepers. Small list that will be moderated if demand is too
great.
Site with both practical and commercial information about the
various Australian stingless native bees, with instructions for maintaining
the Trigona Carbonaria bees.
A
page used as an example in an HTML writing course!
Course material and question bank for
beekeeping/entomology course
An 'internet treasure hunt, designed for children
aged 7-10 or so.
Making a variety of candles from beeswax.
Information about bees, wasps and hornets.
Simon Fraser University offers a distance education course in
bee biology.
Includes
an oak observation hive.
Beekeeping
discussion forum.
Information
about hornets with exceptional graphics. In German.
Bees and hives on stamps.
Full text of Maurice Maeterlinck's book "The Life of the Bee",
published in 1901
One of the nicer things you can make from honey!
Exceptional photographs and informative text about hornets,
in English.
'The Mysterious Bee' honeybee video. A film about Honey Bees,
Bee Behaviour and Basic Beekeeping, presented in an entertaining and
informative way and of interest to all Beekeepers, both amateur and
professional alike.
Graphics of bees on coins and notes.
Warning about not bringing beekeeping materials to Pitcairn.
Description of philatelic project from Pitcairn
Island (South Pacific).
Canadian
based company selling products to the bee industry
Stamp to be released in the US in late 1998 depicting a
honey bee, promoting the value of insect pollination.
Story about hauling hives with big trucks!
An anti-beekeeper and anti-honey site! Puts the arguments used
by vegans when defending their philosophy toward honey and the keeping of
bees to produce it.
Video and book package from University of Georgia.
Brazilian
Association for replacing Africanized honey bee by European honey bee.
A
national (U.S.A) membership organization for the beekeeping industry.
Site for one of the major American beekeeping associations
Brazilian Association of
Beekeepers.
Italian language beekeeping magazine.
Apicultural Abstracts aims to give a complete survey of
research and technical developments concerning all bees and bee-related
subjects throughout the world. It is published quarterly, with a fifth issue
containing the annual indexes.
Magazine (paper!) that prints articles in
English, French or German on bee behaviour, the study of bee plant
interactions, pollination, bee genetics and pathology.
World organisation that has Congress at various locations.
Home site for
the organisation of the Vancouver, Canada, Apimonia Conference to be held in
1999.
Showcase for
beekeeping businesses, magazines, manufacturers, laboratories and services.
Non-profit Beekeeping
Association Serving Western Maryland, South Western Pennsylvania, and North
Central West Virginia; based near the highest point in the Appalachian
Mountains USA.
Photographs and descriptions of beekeeping in Australia.
A good site to get an overall view of Australian beekeeping!
English site with links to Gordon's quarterly
newsletter.
English association of beekeepers
Pages of the Bedfordshire Beekeeping Association, an
English beekeeping organisation representing about 200 Bedfordshire
beekeepers.
Italian site offering assistance to promote
better understanding of bees and beekeeping topics.
BIBBA. Formerly the British Isles Bee Breeders
Assn. One of the main British beekeeping associations.
With links to
Alberta Honey Producers, BeeMaid Honey, Manitoba Honey Producers and Western
Wax Works
Bee page from South Africa. Includes list of links to other
sites.
The international link between beekeeping science and practice,
with the latest in bee science and beekeeping, and providing topical reviews
and digests which are relevant to people everywhere.
Sustainable beekeeping news. UK based, but providing
information of interest on beekeeping around the world.
Updated regularly, these pages inform you of all of the various
honey shows and other happenings in the UK.
Russian language. Links with photos and articles from a
Russian language beekeeping magazine.
National homepage for Slovenian beekeeping
erman pages with information about BeeNet BBS system
Brazilian site in Portuguese with many links.
One of the main beekeeping associations in Britain. Demon
site.
Site for
the organisation involved with the Buckfast bee in Europe. In German.
Pages for the Cherokee Beekeepers Club
and Ross Berry Farm and Apiaries in Canton, Georgia USA.
Information from an agricultural
consultancy company, providing links to several beekeeping sites.
UK based beekeepers association with a web site to
provide details about their activities.
DBF is the 'umbrella' organization for Danish beekeepers
National Danish organisation for beekeepers (in Danish)
Research and development activities in Malaysia.
Danish organization taking advantage of the new technology and
comunication between countrys, offering multilingual software to the
beekeeping society.
History and practice of Egyptian beekeeping.
Homepage of
the Finish Beekeepers Association
A
local association in Gilroy, California geared to local hobbyists and to
informing the community about bees and beekeeping.
English beekeeping association, representing 13 local
Hampshire associations, with over 400 beekeepers.
Not the
'official' page, but the only one available.
Home pages of the IBRA Tropical
Beekeeping/Asian Apiculture Association Conference, to be held in Chiang Mai,
Thailand, on March 19-25, 2000.
The IBRA is a real 'clearing house' for information about
beekeeping. They have one of the most extensive beekeeping libraries in the
world.
Objective of the organisation is to defend better the
price of the honey, meaning a fair price for beekeepers but without
neglecting the buyer's side.
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.
Pages of the beekeepers of Leiden, The Netherlands (in
Dutch).
How to
run a live flying bee show for the public
Still under construction. Mostly links to other sites.
Information on the beekeeping in Mexico, including honey
production, exporters, floral sources.
A
very attractive site with excellent graphics. Includes newsletter and
speaker's reports from recent local meetings.
Has some on-line films about varroa resistant bees, etc;
catching swarms. Good local association in the southeastern United States.
American honey
promotion board.
About
beekeeping in England's capital city.
Homepage
of the Austrian Beekeeping Organization - in German
Mission statement, details of officers and membership.
English based bee association
Homepage from PROAPIS HB, in Swedish with information about
products.
Supports the consevation of the Dark European Honeybee Apis
mellifera mellifera
Small but growing site from a group known for
producing high value heather honey.
Pages about Slovakian beekeeping, including download for a
beekeeping educational programme.
Information about honey bees, bumble bees and orchard mason
bees.
English bee association (good photos!)
Pages maintained by an English beekeeping association
NZ's
leading provider of rural, land-based courses, which includes beekeeping.
Offers Cert in Apic (by correspondence), Adv Certificate in Apiculture (at
Telford) and the Certificate in Queen Bee Rearing (correspondence/block
courses).
Bee
Education & Extension - a dedicated international network to encourage
productive and healthy beekeeping, facilitating links between extension
workers and advisors, educators and trainers.
Southeastern Virginia, USA, beekeepers' association using
a web page to increase the public presence of the association and help
promote their activities.
Description of how a group of honey producers
have co-operated to increase the returns for UMF manuka honey in New Zealand.
Links to newsletters and American Association of
Professional Apiculturalists
Providing a friendly bond of unity among beekeepers
statewide
through education, product promotion, resource access and networking
opportunities.
Wellington (New Zealand) club interested in all aspects
of beekeeping. Meetings are held regularly for members to exchange ideas and
learn from a variety of speakers on different topics.
Washington State organisation's pages,
including copies of old newsletters and other association information.
Includes back issues of the Association's newspaper.
Web site for new and old beekeepers. People can
see how I keep bees in Alaska. There are learning pages and related links to
sites around the world.
Allen is an interesting and well-informed
beekeeper. His pages have links to the BEE-L discussion list archives as well
English hobbyist with good picture of his four hives (including
WBC style).
Any one who
reads the BEE-L list will know Andy! Andy consistently contributes some of
the most thought provoking and commented on postings. His site is fresh and
changing regularly.
Informational pages from an enthusiast who has a site with all
sorts of 'bug stuff'.
Online Beekeeping club. Members can
post messages, add photos, add links
or use online chat room.
Includes plans for bee hives and equipment.
Websites about beekeeping
indexed by theme.
A few photos and description of hobby beekeeping in
England affected by varroa mites.
Photographs of hives and an observation hive
run as an adjunct to a knitting studio in Scotland, describing heather honey
production.
All about beekeeping using natural products, ie. Oils and
herbs. The site was created in early 1998 with a view to sharing hints and
tips with other beekeepers worldwide.
Learn
about bees and honey! Also available is the educational freeware programme
"The HoneyBee" for downloading.
Latest news on the Dark European honeybee, all its queen
breeders in Europe and some nice photos! The Buckfast, Italian, Carniolan,
the African and even Cape bees are also described.
English beekeeping, with Oxfordshire newsletters and links.
Valley Farm, in England. Includes a variety of articles
and photographs.
English beekeeper's personal site.
One hobbyist's experience over the first few seasons with a
movie and some nice photos.
Honey for sale, describes Honeybee Improvement Program
Dave Green is a serious pollination
beekeeper. These pages contain a wealth of practical information for grower
and beekeeper alike.
A large beekeeping operation in US with some pictures.
How to make beeswax soap at home: recipes, instructions, soap
history and more.
Apiculteur professionnel en Provence (franch) je
produis du miel et assure la pollinisation des verger
Includes both pictures and sounds as part of a children's
educational site.
Queen breeding information and apicultural books from a French
professional apiculturalist.
Large
site focussing primarily on beekeeping as a hobby.
Australian site from Ken Morris
Isolated since the late 1800's, a
sanctuary for bee breeding off the coast of Australia. Oldest bee sanctuary
in the world. This is the only place where pure disease free Ligurian bees
exist.
Detailed
opposition to the US Honey Board.
John Clayton's pages describing his hobbyist
beekeeping. Good descriptions of starting beekeeping as a hobbyist and of
the castes in the colony.
Dutch beekeepers site with information on solitary bees, to
Beginning beekeeper's home page with personal stories about
catching swarms and a few links to other bee information sites, from a
beekeeper who lives in Paris, Texas.
Attractive site emphasing the use of products of the
hive.
Excellent graphics and descriptions of observation hives, as
well as other hobbyist topics.
A description of beekeeping life along with a few
"Fun Facts" on honeybees.
Bilingual site (French and English). A
presentation presentation (with photos and text) of all the products made by
" those nice and brave little insects to benefit our health."
Italian beekeeper with 18 hives (some with Buckfast queens).
Italian, but will eventually include English.
Catalog of supplies, monthly guide to beekeeping, the Oregon
State Lab on crops, pollination fees, evaluating a hive. Requirements for
honey house, regs on dealing with USDA & BLM lands. Grower info for
cranberries, meadowfoam. Recipes and trivia.
English description of possible control mechanisms for
varroa.
Personal observations from a hobbyist of 16 years experience.
Recently revised site from a Russian beekeeper.
Page of general bee information (related pages in
Norwegian).
Janice Green's excellent pages of information for teachers
to help with teaching about bees and pollination
Personal page about beekeeping.
Excellent pages from a practical beekeeper. Neat photos of a
beekeeper at work!
Discusses the need for bees in the food chain. Also talks about
honey, beeswax and candles, and problems of bees and beekeepers.
Russian
language site - sorry, I don't have a review for it_
Current information and commentary on the issues and news
related to beekeeping in Scotland.
Beekeeping business with activities in Florida and Michigan.
Honey and bee shirts, soaps and candles for sale.
Five methods of making artificial swarms.
Stan Umlauft
has developed these pages to describe beekeeping urban style. Honeybee facts
& trivia. Back yard hobby beekeeping information, excellent listing of San
Francisco area beekeeper associations
A set of personal pages 'for the new and old' beekeeper.
Site created by an Austrian honeywine maker!
Information about the various items produced by bees (except
wax). Multilingual site - Spanish, French, Portuguese and German, with
Japanese and Chinese to come.
Overview of beekeeping in Alberta province of Canada.
General
information on beekeeping. Portuguese language.
Kenyan-type 'top bar hives' as an alternative to
Langstroth -type moveable frames
General information on tropical beekeeping.
Portuguese language.
Tom Sanford's newsletter was a pioneer in Internet
publishing for the bee industry, and still one of the finest sources of up-to
date information.
Excellent resource material on bees, stings and
Africanised honeybees.
Answers to all those basic questions about
beekeeping!
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations report
on beekeeping in Africa. Written in 1990.
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations report
written in 1990.
Use of Apis dorsata bee in India.
Mississippi State University's tips for beekeepers.
Includes links to many other sites.
Roger Hoopingarner's newsletter (back issues also
available).
Gopher menu about bees
and beekeeping
History and
use by Roger Morse
Good listing of books and other resources related to
beekeeping compiled by James Tew of Ohio State University.
Good
education information about bees as insects.
All about Canada's honey industry...
1995 honey crop information for Canada.
Description of
conditions to be met to allow an importation of Carniolan bee seman into New
Zealand.
Spreadsheet of
honey production, by region and province, in China, 1979-93
Some excellent graphics, including a Java
applet of the bee dance
Coordination in Europe of research on integrated control
of Varroa mites in honey bee colonies, a project with financial supports from
the Commission of the European Communities (FAIR)
Canadian beekeeping educational institute. Good photos.
Can report on honey from specific countries. Useful
resource.
A variety of pictures and text for
anonymous FTP.
Extension publication intended for Nebraska conditions.
Brother Adam - Multilingual homage (Engish, French, German,
Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch) - history and bibliography of this famous
beekeeper. With original full articles since 1933.
Wide-ranging, well-illustrated overview of bees, bee
biology and beekeeping prepared by Keith Delaplane of the University of
Georgia.
Quite detailled information on bee biology with good line
illustrations.
The most updated website on world trade of honey.
Argentine, Chinese and Mexican exports. USA and German imports and much more.
Extensive archive containing logs of the Usenet
newsgroup sci.agriculture.beekeeping, the logs from the listserv bee-l, FAQ
files, and pointers to other beekeeping and apicultural resources, on and off
the Internet.
Entomology Index of Internet Resources: Beekeeping.
The Mid-
Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium - Delaware, Maryland,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia cooperating in a site with an
excellent set of graphics and text 'slides' about bee pests and diseases. A
great site!
The Tualang Tree, the Giant Asian Honey Bees and the
Hindu Myth of the Princess, Hitam Manis-- Dark Sweetness...
Information about keeping bees in skeps with good
photos.
Includes information on detecting varroa mites and
information about chalkbrood.
Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report on the other 'users' of
forests, including honeybees.
Largish
(200k) database of information about honey use.
How to' guide to start beekeeping in Nebraska, including
excellent bibliographical and other sources of information.
Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report summarising
restrictions on trade in the various markets.
Different pollen and spore types are
illustrated with photomicrographs taken with a high resolution scanning
electron microscope.
Article in Grocer's Review describing the position of honey
in the context of other spreads (jams, peanut butter).
Database of information (including abstracts) related to
propolis.
Propolis Research International (PRI) is involved in
research and development, and the manufacture of bee and propolis products.
The
Usenet group that discusses bees and beekeeping.
Practical information about beekeeping
Good photos and description of traditional
beekeeping methods.
Organisation of beekeeping professionals,
including research and advisory personnel. Includes links to "Bee Tidings",
a bi-monthly newsletter for regional beekeepers. Includes information on
American Association of Professional Apiculturalists.
USDA honey figures for late 1980s
USDA statistical report by state
Easy access point for Varroa information on the
Web.
More authoritative compilation of world honey production
statistics available. Worth a visit if you want to keep up with honey from a
'macro view'.
Brazilian university site for
beekeeping.
With contacts in each of the states for inspectors and
regulatory personnel.
Introductory page in English. Beautiful colour graphics.
Yes, attaching barcodes to bees to identify them individually!
Brazilian university site for beekeeping.
North Carolina State University sites, with pollination,
plantings for bees and mite information.
Article
about the possible effects of varroa on Africanised bees in California.
The National Bee Unit is part of the Central
Science Laboratory, an agricultural, food and environmental research agency
based near York.
Lists current projects of this English research group.
Janko Bozic's personal site with references to
research
The USDA Carl Hayden Bee
Research Center in Tucson pages include Africanised bee information,
pollination, research, and educational materials.
From the May 1997 issue of Agricultural Research
magazine, produced by the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA.
Use of honey bees as specialist pollinators in plant
research
University of Waikato (NZ) research unit specialising
in honey related research.
Japanese research laborator
Excellent graphics of healthy bees and larvae and a wide
variety of pests and diseases.
Brazilian university site for beekeeping.
Information about the OSU bee breeding
programme, including instrumental insemination, the New World Carniolan bees
and the various courses and training opportunities.
A university with a long history of involvement in
beekeeping.
Penn State site includes information sheets about
beekeeping, as well as Scott Camazine's neat photo gallery.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Institute fur
Bienenforschung e.V. (German language site for the most part, but with
English being developed).
Excellent article describing the antioxident properties of
honey. Well worth reading.
The use of bees as environmental indicators.
USDA Baton Rouge Lab
has mission statement, email contacts for personnel.
This USDA lab has been at the forefront of Africanised
honeybee and mite research.
Maryland (USA)
based lab, information on personnel and projects underway.
Preliminary esults of research using essential
oils for varroa mite control.
Varroa and virus information from
IACR-Rothamsted (UK) bee lab
Pages on the drone method (in Engl, German, Dutch) against
the varroa mite without the use of chemicals.
See
the world the way a bee does.
PhD student David Sumpter is researching bee nest
temperature and presents his work on thermoregulation.
Real
time displays of video and scientific data about bees - weather, colony
temperature, etc. Fascinating! An excellent example of the immediacy of the
Internet.
American Association of Professional
Apiculturalists database with text and photos (not for download, but for
purchase).
Designed for Windows 95
Software to assist in diagnosis and treatment of bee diseases
and pests.
Beekeepers 'yard book', with demo for download
The BeeKeeper
program allows you to track all of your hives. With detailed
information such as location, hive count, breed information on your queens,
you will be able to keep up to date records. BeeKeeper also allows you to
keep track of and print reports on such things as supplementary feeding,
treatments, testing, production and even the weather. We are currently
developing a complimentary version of the program to go on a handheld
computer. Please note that the version number for the program is now 2.1. We
have recently done an upgrade on the program. We are currently writing a
complimentary program that will work on handheld computers running the Palm
operating system. This will give beekeepers a simple, portable way to input
data into the program right from the bee yard.
Hive
management software written by Jorn Johanesson. Also download for pollen
grain database.
Written by a scientist who once owned over
fifteen hundred hives of bees in Saskatchewan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin. Ron now has a couple of hives in the foothills of the Rocky
Mountains, near his home in Calgary.
Get
the Honey Board database to work with on your own computer. Worthwhile
information.
Australian site with beekeeping software demonstration
Windows
95/98/NT beekeeping software for beekeeping. Full working retail version of
the software is downloadable, good for 50 logons, and convertible to
unlimited use upon purchase by entry of PIN number.
Can you help me find any other sites? I'd be more than happy to add
any site with beekeeping interest to the list!
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