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Reference information on beekeeping topics

Reference information
  • The Apiary Calendar - what to do each month
  • Why and how to keep hive records.
  • All about Queen Rearing.
  • Looking after your bees - ​Bee Health
  • Dave Cushman's encyclopedic web site - possibly the most information about bees available in one spot
  • Beespoke.info - an Irish site with a huge amount of useful information

Beekeeping associations
  • Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations (FIBKA)
  • Native Irish Honey Bee Society (NIHBS)
  • The County Dublin Beekeepers Association
  • Armagh and Monaghan Beekeepers' Association
  • Ulster Beekeepers Association
  • The British Beekeepers Association
  • Welsh Beekeepers Association
  • Scottish Beekeepers Association

​Bee Journals & Organisations
  • Galtee Bee Breeding Group
  • Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association (BIBBA)
  • BeeCraft 
  • Bees for Development 
  • Bees Abroad 
  • International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (IJEST) 
  • International Bee Research Association (IBRA) 
  • The Beekeepers Quarterly 

Government
  • Ireland: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - Beekeeping and Honey
  • Heath Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) -  approved treatments
  • UK: National Bee Unit - BeeBase

Beekeeping Supplies:
  • Irish Bee Supplies (local supplier based near Ardee, Co. Louth - Map)
  • Bee Supplies (Dublin)
  • Dingle Beekeeping Supplies (Kerry)
  • MacEoin Honey (Cork)
  • Donegal Bees (Donegal)
  • Mill Lane Beekeeping (Leitrim)
  • Thornes (UK)

Environment
  • Biodiversity Ireland - register your sightings of wildlife here
  • All-Ireland Pollinator Plan - for gardens, schools, churches, farms, business, councils, rail & motorways, communities
  • Ava's Flowers
  • Flower Fragrances That Attract Bees and Butterflies to Your Garden
  • Bees and Honey: Creating Pollinator Gardens - Good general advice for helping pollinators, although please don't put out sugar water!
  • How Gardeners Can Help Prevent the Bee Apocalypse - More general gardening advice

Miscellaneous
  • UK-based Beekeeping forum
  • All About Bees - Collection of Melittology Resources
  • Beekeeping facts for kids
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Online Videos
  • FIBKA - the Federation of Irish Beekeepers' Associations
  • BIBBA - Bee Improvement and Bee Breeders Association BIBBA
  • The Norfolk Honey Company - a great UK source of information
  • Gwenyn Gruffydd - a beekeeper from Wales
  • Black Mountain Honey - another Welsh beekeeper
  • Keith Pierce - a Dublin beekeeper

Online Books
  • The Internet Archive - search for any bee-related topic and you can find all sorts of information. For example, click on "text" to limit the search to books & search for Bees.  You can also search for magazines, e.g. the American Bee Journal.
  • Project Gutenberg, the website that publishes books that are out of copyright, have a huge selection of eBooks available in all the common formats. Below is a list of those I found when I searched for bee-related books, and I'm sure there are others. Note that these are the English books - there are also many in French, German, Dutch, etc.
    • A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive by William Augustus Munn
    • A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees by John M. Weeks
    • A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees by Thomas Hill
    • Apis Mellifica; or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent  by C. W. Wolf
    • Bee Hunting: A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters by John Ready Lockard
    • Bee Keeping by Frank Benton
    • Bees by Everett Franklin Phillips
    • Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre
    • British Bees by William Edward Shuckard
    • Humanity to Honey-Bees by Thomas Nutt
    • Improved Queen-Rearing; or, How to Rear Large, Prolific, Long-Lived Queen Bees by Henry Alley
    • The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
    • Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. Langstroth
    • Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. Quinby
    • New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
    • Nuova; or, The New Bee  (fictional account of a bee) by Vernon L. Kellogg 
    • Soft Candy for Bees by Burton N. Gates
    • The Bee-keeper's Manual by Henry Taylor
    • The Children's Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
    • The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre
    • The Preparation of Bees for Outdoor Wintering by Everett Franklin Phillips and Geo. S. Demuth
    • Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Edward Saunders
    • Wintering Bees in Cellars by Everett Franklin Phillips and Geo. S. Demuth
  • The Anatomy of the Honey Bee (PDF) by R.E. Snodgrass - this is apparently out of copyright so it can be downloaded from the USDA
  • Bee-Craft articles, digital library, and beginners series by month​
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