Lending Library

“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:

MCBA Lending Library 

as of 5/6/2019

DVD’s

  1. Vanishing of the Bees   
  2. The Secret Life of Bees   
  3. Queen Rearing  

BOOKS

General Honeybee

  1. Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley
  2. A Year’s Work in an Out-Apiary by G.M Doolittle      
  3. From Where I Sit, Essays on Bees, Beekeeping and Science by Mark L. Winston
  4. Beekeeping at Buckfast Abby: with a Section on Mead Making by Brother Adam
  5. Sweetness & Light, the Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis
  6. Plan Bee: Everything you Ever wanted to Know about the Hardest-working creatures on the Planet by Susan Brackney
  7. The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and US by Bee Wilson  
  8. Honeybees: Poems and Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye
  9. For the Love of Bees by Leslie Bill
  10. Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey and Humankind  by Stephen Buchmann and Banning Repplier
  11. Falling in Honey by Jennifer Barclay
  12. At the Hive Entrance by H. Storch
  13. The Thermal Warriors by Bernd Heinrich
  14. Bee Time, Lessons from the hive by Mark Winston

Bee Biology & Beekeeping:

  1. The Hive and the Honeybee Edited by Joe M Graham  
  2. Bee Sex Essentials by Lawrence John Connor   
  3. Honeybee Biology and Beekeeping by Dewey M Caron     
  4. The Beekeepers Handbook, Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile
  5. Bee Equipment Essentials by Ed Simon
  6. What do you know? By Clarence Collison     
  7. Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them by Sue Hubbell,
  8. Practical Beekeeping by Enoch Tompkins and Roger Griffith
  9. The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter
  10. Beekeeping by John Eckert and Frank Shaw
  11. Beekeeping, The Gentle Craft by John Festus Adams
  12. Starting Right with Bees by Gleanings in Bee Culture Editorial Staff
  13. Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping by Dewey Caron
  14. Beekeeping Questions and Answers by Dennis Brown
  15. The Complete New Guide to Beekeeping by Roger Morse
  16. The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum
  17. The Beekeeper’s Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained by James Tew
  18. Increase Essentials by Lawrence J. Connor
  19. Some important Operations in Bee Management by TSK and MP Johanson
  20. The Classroom by Jerry Hayes
  21. Understanding bee Anatomy by Ian Still
  22. Simple, Smart Beekeeping By Kirsten Traynor

Honey

  1. The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook by Kim Flottum
  2. The Modern-Day Pioneer: Simple Living in the 21st Century by Charlotte Denholtz
  3. A Book of Honey by Eva Crane
  4. A Handbook for Honey Judges and Beekeepers Exhibiting Hive Products by James Thompson
  5. Honey Shows: Guidelines for Exhibitors, Superintendents and Judges by Roger and Mary Lou Morse
  6. Two Million Blossoms, Discovering the medical benefits of honey by Kirsten Traynor
  7. What you should know about honey by Walter Gojmerac

Bees Wax

  1. Beeswax Crafts, Candle making, Modelling, Beauty Creams, Soaps and Polishes, Encaustic Art, Wax Crayo by David Constable, Polly Pinder and Norman Battershill.

Raising Queens

  1. Practical Queen Rearing by Frank C. Pellett
  2. Scientific Queen Rearing by G.M. Doolittle
  3. Queen Rearing Essentials by Lawrence John Connor
  4. Queen Rearing Simplified by Jay Smith
  5. Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry Laidlaw and Robert Page
  6. Mating Biology of Honey Bees by Gudrun Koeniger
  7. OTS Queen Rearing by Mel Disselkoen
  8. The Queen Must Die and other affairs of Bees and Men by Wulliam Longgood

Observations Hives:

  1. The Observation Hive Handbook, Studying Honeybees at Home by Frank Linton
  2. Observation Hives, How to Set up, Maintain and Use a Window to the World of Honey bees by Thomas Webster and Dewey Caron

Other Bees

  1. Why do Bees Buzz? Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bees by Elizabeth Capaldi Evans and Carol A. Butler
  2. Befriending Bumble Bees.  A practical guide to raising local bumble bees by Elaine Evans and Ian Burn and Maria Spivak
  3. The Orchard Mason Bee.  The Life History – Biology- Propagation and Use of a truly Benevolent and Beneficial Insect, by Brian L. Griffin
  4. Pollination with Mason Bees.  A Gardener’s Guide to Managing Mason Bees for Fruit production, by Margriet Dogterom
  5. Foraging Afar: Tales from a Decade of Beekeeping Across the World by William Bromstedt
  6. Native Bee Guide by Crown Bees
  7. Following the Wild Bees, the craft and science of bee hunting by Thomas Steeley

Plants for Bees

  1. Bringing Nature Home, How you can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglass Tallamy
  2. Honey Plants of North American by John Lovell

Top Bar Hives

  1. Top-Bar Hive Beekeeping: Wisdom and Pleasure Combined by Wyatt Mangum

Mead

  1. Mead and Honey Wines: A Comprehensive Guide by Michael Badger, MBE
  2. The Complete Meadmaker by Ken Schramm

Bee books for Children

  1. Grandpa’s Hidden Gold Farm by Sharyl Calhoun