Your Xmas wishlist

[elainemary]

Hi
In an attempt to head off more chocolates, I’m thinking about what bee related items I might want for Xmas...more books!
Any good books you’d recommend (probably got the most obvious)?

Here’s one from me, which I enjoyed recently. ‘Interviews with beekeepers’ by Steve Donohoe. Lots of good tips and insights with 8 different beekeepers around the world. Particularly enjoyed reading wisdom from Murray McGregor, Peter Little and David Kemp.
Picked up a few new tips that I tried this season. Peter’s reverse artificial swarm worked well.

Back to my original point - any good books you’d recommend to add to a Xmas wish list?
Thanks
Elaine

 

[Apple]

A vaccine against Covid 19 and made available free worldwide

 

[elainemary]

A vaccine against Covid 19 and made available free worldwide

Good idea! Difficult to read (literally!)
Thanks

 

[Antipodes]

Tom's book from last year "The Lives of Bees".

Looks at how wild colonies are still thriving apparently.....

 

[rolande]

For a bit of Christmas fun try to get a copy of May Abbots 'Me and the Bee' published in the sixties it's long out of print but copies are out there. Its a very well written book which might well have been a blueprint for Bill Turnbull's book.

 

[Antipodes]

For a bit of Christmas fun try to get a copy of May Abbots 'Me and the Bee' published in the sixties it's long out of print but copies are out there. Its a very well written book which might well have been a blueprint for Bill Turnbull's book.

Ok..."The battles of a bumbling beekeeper" I see. Sounds like me at the moment.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Book' buzz about bees' by Jurgen tautz.
I really like this book.
Im also looking for more honey bee biology books for Christmas?? Modern preferably.

 

[E&MBees]

Dancing with Bees, a journey back to nature by Brigit Strawbridge Howard. A lovely gentle read exploring hers and the bees relationship with nature.

 

[Erichalfbee]

This

 

[elainemary]

Tom's book from last year "The Lives of Bees".

Looks at how wild colonies are still thriving apparently.....

Thanks got that one, enjoyed reading it

 

[elainemary]

This

Lovely illustrations

 

[elainemary]

Book' buzz about bees' by Jurgen tautz.
I really like this book.
Im also looking for more honey bee biology books for Christmas?? Modern preferably.

Thanks got that one, great photos. Re biology, what aspects? If anatomy, Ian Stell on understanding bee anatomy, good illustrations / photos

 

[Angry_Mob]

Honeybee Democracy is often well recommended, I have my copy to read yet however.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Honeybee Democracy is often well recommended, I have my copy to read yet however.

well worth the read

 

[deemann1]

I really enjoyed reading honey by the ton.

 

[rolande]

Another interesting read: Oil and Honey by Bill McKibben. Not your classic bee book, it's a parallel look at McKibben's environmental stuff and his friend Kirk Webster's low impact beekeeping lifestyle.

 

[Charli]

Queenspotting, by Hilary Kearney. Beautiful pictures/photography. Lots easier to find the queen when the bees keep still though!

 

[katbee]

I'm preeeetty sure the other half is going to get me a Dadant smoker. He's certainly been primed enough.

 

[user 6228]

Tom's book from last year "The Lives of Bees".

Looks at how wild colonies are still thriving apparently.....

The section on temperature and heat loss is good

 

[elainemary]

Queenspotting, by Hilary Kearney. Beautiful pictures/photography. Lots easier to find the queen when the bees keep still though!

Sounds really good practise! Thankyou