Online or book resource for forage

[patrickr]

Hi

Can anyone recommend a good online resource or book which gives thorough information on forage for honeybees. Ie. names of plants, habitats, flowering period, location, soil type etc.

Thanks

 

[Amari]

Hi

Can anyone recommend a good online resource or book which gives thorough information on forage for honeybees. Ie. names of plants, habitats, flowering period, location, soil type etc.
Thanks

If you're well funded: Plants for Bees. Kirk & Howes. IBRA. 2012. £25 when I bought it. Well reviewed. 220 pages on various bee plants.

 

[elainemary]

The book suggested by Amari is v good and separates honeybees from other types of bees and where they forage. These 2 books are also v good:
Plants & Honeybees their relationships Aston & Bucknall. Covers a lot about plant biology and pollination as well as favourite plants of the honeybee

Plants & Beekeeping by FN Howes. Covers the major plants foraged by honeybees, the sort of honey produced from their nectar

 

[OXFORDBEE]

There’s also the IBRA directory of important honey sources.

 

[peterbees]

I'm still using a 40-year old copy of Howes' Plants and Beekeeping, the most useful book in my collection of bee books. Worth seeking out at secondhand book shops.
AbeBooks sell print on demand copies at high prices.

 

[amandaj57]

I'm still using a 40-year old copy of Howes' Plants and Beekeeping, the most useful book in my collection of bee books. Worth seeking out at secondhand book shops.
AbeBooks sell print on demand copies at high prices.

You can get a kindle version for a fiver from Amazon, or paperback for similar.

 

[pargyle]

You can get a kindle version for a fiver from Amazon, or paperback for similar.

Or download it free here:

https://archive.org/details/plantsandbeekeep031830mbp