SUNY Adirondack Library: Bees, Beekeeping and Apiaries: Home

Bee Books to Borrow

The SUNY Adirondack Library has almost 90 books about bees and beekeeping. Here's a sample:

The Incomparable Honeybee and the Economics of Pollination by Reese Halter
Call Number: QL568.A6 H34 2011
ISBN: 9781926855653
The Bee by Noah Wilson-Rich; Kelly Allin (Contribution by); Norman Carreck (Contribution by); Andrea Quigley (Contribution by)
Call Number: QL568.A6 W55 2014
ISBN: 0691161356
Publication Date: 2014-08-24
Bees : a natural history by O’Toole, Christopher
Call Number: QL568.A6 O85 2013
ISBN: 1770852085
Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives by Rob McFarland; Chelsea McFarland
Call Number: SF523 .M2484 2015
ISBN: 1624141412
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
Natural Beekeeping by Ross Conrad; Gary Paul Nabhan (Foreword by)
Call Number: SF523 .C75 2013
ISBN: 1603583629
Publication Date: 2013-03-08
Buzz : urban beekeeping and the power of the bee by Moore, Lisa Jean
Call Number: SF524.52.N7 M66 2013
ISBN: 0814763065
Keeping bees in towns & cities by Dixon, Luke
Call Number: SF523 .D58 2012
ISBN: 1604692871
Attracting Native Pollinators by Eric Mader; Matthew Shepherd; Mace Vaughn; Scott Hoffman Black; Xerces Society Staff (Created by); Marla Spivak (Foreword by)
Call Number: QL467.8 .A88 2011
ISBN: 1603426957
Publication Date: 2011-02-26

Articles on Bee Culture

Use the Start Your Research Here box on the library home page to search for Bees AND Mites, for instance, or "Colony Collapse Disorder."

Find more books with these search words. The asterisk (*) is a search technique that tells the database to look for all endings of a word.

Bees
Urban bee culture
Beekeep* or "bee keep*"
Honeybee
Bee culture and Queen rearing
Queen honeybees
Colony collapse disorder
Apiculture
Apiaries

We also have Marla Spivak's handbook Successful queen rearing: short course (Call number SF531.55 .S75 2007).

Bee Culture Websites

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News About Bees

Wasps

Wasps: Their biology, diversity, and role as beneficial insects and pollinators of native plants by Heather Holm
Call Number: Circulating QL564 .H65 2021
ISBN: 9780991356317
Publication Date: 2021
""WASPS is the first full-color, illustrated guide featuring approximately 150 species of flower-visiting wasps that occur in eastern North America...."

New Bee Books

Buzz by Thor Hanson
Call Number: QL565 .H36 2018
ISBN: 9780465052615
100 Plants to Feed the Bees by The Xerces Society
Call Number: QK926 .A12 2016
ISBN: 9781612127019
The Bee-Friendly Garden by Kate Frey; Gretchen LeBuhn; Leslie Lindell (Photographer)
Call Number: QL59 .F74 2016
ISBN: 9781607747635

Science Databases

American Journal of Nursing (AJN) This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Environment Complete
Gale Health and Wellness
GreenFILE
Health Reference Center Academic
MEDLINE with Full Text
Proquest Health and Medicine
ScienceDirect

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