“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.” 
― John Muir

Come to club meetings to talk and hear about bees. Leave club meetings inspired to try something new with your bees. Use club resources to better understand the ways of the bees. Club members may check out books and DVDs at the monthly meetings for one month. Browse the collection and sign out a book – book title, your name & contact (phone or email) and the date. Please return all items at the next monthly meeting so that everyone has an opportunity to take advantage of this great resource.  If nobody else would like to check the selected item out, it may be checked out again for another month. Below are some of the books and DVD’S available:

 

DVDs

Vanishing of the Bees  

The Secret Life of Bees  

 

Books

The Observation Hive Handbook, Studying Honeybees at Home by Frank Linton

A Year’s Work in an Out-Apiary by G.M Doolittle

Practical Queen Rearing by Frank C. Pellett

Scientific Queen Rearing by G.M. Doolittle

Queen Rearing Essentials by Lawrence John Connor

The Hive and the Honeybee Edited by Joe M Graham

Bee Sex Essentials by Lawrence John Connor

Beekeeping at Buckfast Abby: with a Section on Mead Making by Brother Adam

Sweetness & Light, the Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis

Bringing Nature Home, How you can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy

The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook by Kim Flottum

Bee Equipment Essentials by Ed Simon

Honeybee Biology and Beekeeping by Dewey M Caron

The Beekeepers Handbook, Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile

From Where I Sit, Essays on Bees, Beekeeping and Science by Mark L. Winston

What do you know? By Clarence Collison

 

-Pam Hepp