Book Recommendations

• Guide to Bees and Honey This has long been a favourite of mine. An excellent mix of easy-to-understand stuff for beginners, together with a remarkable breadth and depth of information for the more experienced beekeeper.
• Guide to Bees and Honey - paperback As above but in paperback. Should be out in September 2003.
• Practical Beekeeping Clive d'Bruyn's new work. Rated by most people as at least equal to Guide to Bees and Honey, but of course, it's more up to date
• Illustrated Encyclopaeda of Beekeeping My Beekeeping Bible. Unfortunately now out of print, though Amazon sometimes have 2nd hand copies .. at a price!
• Hive and Honey Bee The Dadant company's classic. Probably more relevant to American beekeepers than UK beekeepers.
• The Humble-Bee F. W. L. Sladen's 1912 work on Bumble Bees. A must for us Bumble Bee fans.
• The Red Mason Bee Chris O'Toole's book on the solitary bee Osmia Rufa. I helped Oxford Bee Company to set up some research on these .. see the article in the Spring 2003 newsletter.
• Breeding the HoneybeeBrother Adam's work on apigenetics. Great book on the subject, but definitely not for beginners. newsletter.