Helpful Web Sites for All Beekeepers
Here are some other web sites from far and wide that you will enjoy.
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This one is from Graham Law in England. http://www.beeginners.info/ |
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| Dave Cushman has a really big site. He is also from England. He helps me a lot! http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/newhome.html |
| The National Honey Board has this site page for children. http://www.honey.com/kids/index.html |
| The Betterbee Company sells supplies. http://www.betterbee.com |
| Building plans and information can be downloaded at this site. http://www.beesource.com/plans/index.htm |
| Here's another site from England that is mainly for children. http://www.bees4kids.org.uk/ |
| A student from Nebraska recommended http://www.bigoven.com/article/Recipe/kids-guide-honey A Kid's Guide to Honey - History, Recipes and More- The student also recommended http://www.bedbugs.org/insects-for-kids/ Bug and Insect Learning Center for Kids. A student named Dave from Delaware recommended http://www.fragrancex.com/Fragrance-Information/beekeeping-adults-kids.html I appreciate students passing on this information! Feel free to contact me if you find a good site other students will learn from. |
| If you want to see an absolutely fabulous collection of bee photos, go to http://photo.bees.net/gallery/. Zachary Huang has photos of healthy bees and combs as well as photos of various diseases and mites. This is a very educational site! |
| Bees are insects. When you study them, you are an entomologist. To learn what is inside of a bee look at the Rothamsted Research DeBug interactive entomology web site http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/pie/DeBug/Anatomy.html . You will have fun with other pages on this site while learning a lot about bees and other bugs! The photos are terrific! |
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O'Niell children and their dad moved the established plastic dome out
into my garden over a swarm. Mike O'Niell designed the platform that
supports the bell jar. |
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The two observation hive photos were taken by Len Felsenfeld, member of Sonoma County Beekeepers Association. |
 This little guy is trying to find the queen in the observation hive colony. |
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little silly at times. Jessie Peterson decided to be a living beehive
for Halloween. The little yellow specks around the skep are pipe cleaner
bees. We can't keep bees in skeps in the U.S.A. but it is nice to be
able to show people what they look like. 
Finding the queen can be a family contest!
Did you know it would take about one ounce of honey to fuel a honey bee's flight around the world?
Hint: Look in the center for a very shiny, long bee.
This was an unusual swarm in October.
Using the above web sites and many other resources will contribute to your beekeeping expertise
but putting on that beesuit and actually working with the bees is really necessary and more exciting!
If you have any interesting pictures of children working with or learning about bees, perhaps you would like to share them on this site. Please send them to Ettamarie Peterson, site manager at peterson@svn.net . You will be given credit, ot course.
