Books & Media
Honey Bee Diseases & Pests (3rd edition)
$20.00
Every beekeeper should have on the shelf a copy of this handbook from the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists (CAPA). With detailed color photographs and concise text, the book outlines...
Backyard Beekeeper (5th ed.)
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This book, by author Kim Flottum, is the text we use for our Beginner Beekeeping courses. It is the best book we've found for taking an absolute beginner through the...
Garden Plants for Honey Bees
$50.00
Written by accomplished horticulturist and beekeeper, Peter Lindtner, this book has 394 pages packed with beautiful color photographs and information about important plants for honey bees. Organized by month of...
Swarm Essentials
$25.00
Another great book from the "Essentials" series, authored by EAS Master Beekeeper Stephen Repasky and Lawrence Connor. 128 pages of concise and valuable information, along with excellent color photographs. "Swarm...
Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping
$90.00
"First released in 1999, Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping is widely accepted as a major textbook of Apiculture (beekeeping). Universities use it to teach college students bee biology and beekeeping....
The Beeman
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By Laurie Krebs and Valeria Cis - with easy to read rhyming text and playful illustrations the story of a young boy and his beekeeper grandfather takes us on a...
Increase Essentials
$27.00
Dr. Larry Connor examines essential aspects of making new bee colonies, from swarms or packages, purchased hives or nuclei. He looks at the impact of modern life on beekeeping, and...
Beekeeper's Handbook
$29.95
The current (fourth) edition of the definitive text by Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitable is newly updated with lots of information about Colony Collapse Disorder, Varroa mites, African honey bees,...
The Queen Must Die
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"The Queen Must Die, and Other Affairs of Bees and Men" is a collection of essays by William Longgood that give a delightful insight into the wonders of keeping bees. ...
The Beekeeper's Bible
$40.00
Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from safe hive management to the culinary, medicinal, cosmetic, and...
The Honeybee Man
$17.99
A fabulous story by Lela Nargi, illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker, "The Honeybee Man" tells of a beekeeper who keeps hives on a rooftop in Brooklyn, NY. The book is simple...
Natural Beekeeping
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Ross Conrad, from Vermont, is one of the early reasonable voices for keeping bees in better harmony with their place in nature. He explains how, with management techniques and soft...
Hive and the Honey Bee Revisited
$30.00
L.L. Langstroth's beekeeping classic, updated and annotated by Roger Hoopingarner, PhD. "More than 150 years aftger L.L. Langstroth invented the movable-comb hive and brought beekeeping into the modern age, we...
Tales from the Hive (DVD)
$19.95
Truly amazing up-close photography unlike any you have seen before. In this remarkable film about the workings of the honeybee colony you will see the mid-air "wedding flight" of a...
The Secret Life of Bees
$19.99
"A powerful story . . . Kidd's writing is sharp and descriptive. Before the first chapter ended, I had recoiled, I had cried, and I had laughed. I was also...
Queen Rearing Essentials
$25.00
By Dr. Lawrence John Connor, "Queen Rearing Essentials provides today's beekeepers with a clear, concise, and simple method to not only produce their own queens, but to actually improve their...
Bee-sentials
$30.00
A field guide by Dr. Lawrence John Connor, with Robert Muir, this is a "book of thought-provoking, science-based discussion designed for individuals and beekeeping clubs who mentor new beekeepers. "Spend...
Bee Sex Essentials
$25.00
By Dr. Lawrence John Connor. "This book . . . provides not only the background information necessary to understand honey bee genetics and breeding, it also contains a wealth of...
The Hive Detectives
$9.99
"Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe" by Loree Griffin Burns is the perfect book for curious, science-minded youngsters or people of any age who are looking for a concise overview...
The Buzz about Bees
$54.99
From researcher and author Jürgen Tautz - the Biology of a superorganism. "With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of...
The Beekeeper's Lament
$15.99
"John Miller . . . trucks his hives around the country, bringing millions of bees to farmers otherwise bereft of natural pollinators. Even as the mysterious and deadly epidemic known...