Beekeepers
Canadian Bee Associations
See more links to Bee Associations around the world
Bee Swarms
Click here to see a list of beekeepers that collect swarms in Ontario. If you're a beekeeper that collects swarms in Ontario, feel free to email me and I'll add you. If you're from USA or elsewhere in the world, feel free to add your info in the comments section.
If you have a swarm in a tree, house or attic, here's some info about swarms explained. Don't worry, a swarm isn't out to harm you, they're house hunting.
The OBA - Ontario Bee Association
The Ontario Bee Association (OBA) is one of the best resouces around for information on pest management.
The Tech Transfer Team is a group of people funded by the OBA who work diligently on our behalf to find the best ways to manage bees in today's increasing trying times. They have worked with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture to develop a list of their 2009 Recommendations for Honey Bee Disease Control.
The Tech Transfer team has developed a Bee Vacumm which uses an adapted dust buster. This vacuumm can be used easily at the front of the hive to collect returning field bee samples for lab testing. The plans for the vacuum are posted on the OBA web site.
Directions for how to make your on Varroa Mite Sticky Board are posted as well.
Recommendations for Books on Bees/Beekeeping
- The ABC and Xyz of Bee Culture by by A. I. Root
- Robbing the Bees
- Beekeeping for Dummies by Howland Blackiston (Best recommended book for beginners)
- Honey Plants of North America by John H. Lovell
- Natural Beekeeping by Ross Conrad
- Beekeeping: A Practical Guide by Richard E. Bonney
- The Buzz About Bees by Dr. Jurgen Tautz (a must have)
- Fruitless Fall
Beekeepers' Presentation for the Classroom
If you're a beekeeper it's only a matter of time until the local rotary club, the church group, legion or public schools contact you to ask about doing presentations. Here is an interactive presentation done in Powerpoint (verion 2003) called honeybees.pps.
You are free to use/copy or edit the presentation for the classroom or groups. You can open it with Internet Explorer or Powerpoint. Two video files are included in the presentation and for them to work they will need to be downloaded as well. They are Bee Dances in an Observation Hive and Drones and bees flying to the hive. When you click the links, to download select the "Save" option. If you do use it or are inspired by it's contents, I'd really appreciate your feedback on it. Thanks.
To run the honeybee.pps file, I believe if you double click to open, the file will come up in Internet Explorer. Or, open Internet Explorer, click File...Open from the menu and browse to find the file.
I've also posted a few tips and hints for when doing presentations both to Adults and Kids on my blog.
On-line Forums & Sites
The Central Beekeepers' Alliance from New Brunswick, Canada has a terrific web site for beekeepers with how to instructions on the typical beekeeping questions, along with a comment board where you can ask questions.
Beekeeping Clubs Around the World
For a list of beekeeping associations around the world see the Associations page.
For a list of organizations associated with conservation, insects and lists of books see the Links
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