The Apiary: Bees & Beekeeping

All About Bees 

These sites talk about various species of bees and their differences

Honeybees

At Honeybee.tamu.edu we hope to provide general information about bees, answer frequently asked questions and solve common problems associated with honey bees, and serve beekeepers with regulatory resources, specific disease and parasite information, and current topics.

Carpenter Bees

In the late-spring and early summer, homeowners often notice large, black bees hovering around the outside of their homes. These are probably carpenter bees searching for mates and favorable sites to construct their nests.

Insecta Inspecta World - Killer Bees

Africanized, Sometimes Called "Killer Bees"

Gordon's Social Bees Page

An Introduction to the biology, classification and ecology of the Social Bees (Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, Stingless Bees etc.)

NOVA Online | Tales from the Hive

Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Tales from the Hive,"

Bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bees (a lineage within the superfamily Apoidea) are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. There are approximately 20,000 species of bees, and they may be found on every continent except Antarctica. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used for food for the brood.

Welcome to Anne Gracie's Website - Bees

Quite a lot of people have asked me why on earth I keep bees. They also ask me how
often I get stung. Actually, bee keeping is not all that scarey or dangerous - unless you're allergic to bee stings, and I'm not.

Beekeeping and Honey 

Bees

The insects most beneficial to humans are found in the large insect order Hymenoptera. Not only are the bees and many of their relatives pollinators of flowering plants, including fruits and vegetables, but thousands of species of small wasps are parasites of other arthropods.

Bees and Honey

All about honey, honey bees and more

Honey.com - The Honey Expert

Honey.com is your source for honey information and recipes. Honey.com -- the honey expert

Bees and Pollination

An AgNIC website providing links to web-based information about honeybees, beekeeping and pollination

Solitary Bees: An Addition to Honey Bees

Pollen bees! What are these? Who ever heard of them? If you have not heard of pollen bees, that's not surprising, because this inclusive term was coined only in 1992, to describe all the bees other than honey bees that help to pollinate our crops and wild flowers. They have also been called "native bees," "wild bees," and "non-Apis bees."

Organic Honey - The O'Mama Report

The O'Mama Report is a resource featuring organic and organic agriculture. It contains articles about organic standards, organic gardening, preparing organic baby nurseries, cooking with organic foods, and how to incorporate organic into everyday life.

Apiservices - The Beekeeping portal - Le Portail Apiculture - Apicultura - Imkerei

Apiservices - All information about beekeeping, bees and honey - Toutes informations pour l'apiculture, les abeilles et le miel

BeeSource.com

Your Online Sourcebook for Beekeeping

Guide To Bee-Friendly Gardens - Home

What types of bees do you see in your garden? At first glance you may observe some honeybees ducking in and out of flowers, perhaps a bumblebee or two. Did you know that there are actually 81 known species of bees in urban Berkeley alone? Take a better look; you may see bright green bees, small black bees, striped and fuzzy bees. These busy little creatures are responsible for pollinating a large variety of fruits, flowers, and vegetables. They are an important and vital part of our ecosystem.

MAKE: Blog: Backyard beekeeping - splitting a hive

This is my second year as an amateur beekeeper, and this last weekend we split our first hive, creating a second colony which will be relocated to a new home in the suburbs.

How Hilary Berseth Makes His Beeswax Sculptures -- New York Magazine

How Hilary Berseth makes his buzzworthy sculptures.

Colony Collapse Disorder 

a catastrophic development in beekeeping

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees

Mystery Ailment Strikes Honeybees - washingtonpost.com

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.

MAAREC - A listing of on-line information.

To better understand the cause(s) of this disease and with the hope of eventually identifying strategies to prevent further losses, a group of researchers, extension agents, and regulatory officials was formed. This group represents a diverse number of institutions including Bee Alert Technology, Inc. (a bee technology transfer company affiliated with the University of Montana), The Pennsylvania State University, the USDA/ARS, the Florida Department of Agriculture, and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

Colony Collapse Disorder | Podcasts at Penn State

In our first episode, hear from Senior Extension Agent and Honey Bee Specialist, Maryann Frazier, about honey bees and why they are such important pollinators in Pennsylvania and the United States. Find out why this die off is getting the attention of experts, and learn about the characteristics and extent of the collapse. Finally, get a preview of who the key players are and what is being done to investigate Colony Collapse Disorder.

Latest Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences News

An alarming die-off of honey bees has beekeepers fighting for commercial survival and crop growers wondering whether bees will be available to pollinate their crops this spring and summer.

Colony Collapse Disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is a honey bee disease, disorder or syndrome that describes the massive die-off affecting an entire colony. It is apparently limited to colonies of the Western honey bee in North America.[1] The cause of the syndrome is not yet well understood and even the existence of this disorder remains disputed. CCD may be environmental, or may be caused by unknown pathogens or by mites or associated diseases. CCD is possibly linked to pesticide use though several studies have found no common environmental factors between unrelated outbreaks studied.

Pesticides may be hurting honeybees: researcher

Toxins in the environment could be causing honeybee populations to dwindle in New Brunswick, Ontario and the northeastern states, a U.S. researcher says.

Straight Dope Staff Report: Why are the bees disappearing?

First and most important: There are some 20,000 species of bees in the world, and many thousands more types of pollinating insects. What you're hearing about, "colony collapse disorder," affects one species of bee ? the European honey bee. That species happens to be the one global agriculture relies upon for about 30% of its pollination requirements. So while we're not talking about losing all the world's pollinators, we are talking about losing a significant fraction of them. That's the worst-case scenario, with the species wiped out completely.

About Honey 

How sweet it is...

Why is honey kosher ?

A Rabbinical dicussion of why honey can be kosher.

BeeSource.com | POV | USDA | A Survey of American Honeys

Characterization of Individual Floral Types of Honey

Honey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by honeybees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. "The definition of honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance.

All About Honey

Learn the differences between comb honey, liquid honey, granulated and chunk honey.

Monofloral Honey Definitions

World Wide the International Standards for Honey are laid out in the Codex Alimentarius (administered by the "Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme").

Got Mead?: Honey Types

Honey Varieties and the different qualities they bring to making mead.