Bee Keeping Pathfinder

This website is a topical newsletter is available by PDF from the most current issue and includes the archives through 1994. The archives are organized by date. It also is indexed by topic.
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mussen/news.cfm

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This website is a Squidoo Lens that is connected to the APIS Information Resource Center (http://apis.shorturl.com/). Both sites have information for the all types of bee keepers, as well as scientific information.

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This website maintained by Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center is very complete. The site has links for a wide range of bee keepers, from beginners to more experienced bee keepers. There is also a link for contacting an expert to ask a question. Some of the link categories include: blogs, discussion groups, articles, government resources and much more.
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/agnic/bee/Default.htm

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This website is maintained by Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. It has extensive, current links to a variety of other websites that have information about colony collapse disorder.
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/agnic/bee/ccd.htm

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This website maintained by the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium at Pennsylvania State University 2007 has detailed information about Colony Collapse Disorder. The various sections of the site are updated often with current links. There is a collection of powerpoints, podcasts, articles, and press releases. While the primary reason to include this link was for information about CCD, there are several other helpful links included in the site about beginning beekeeping, equipment, honey bee biology, hive and honey management, disease and pests, and pollination.
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/ColonyCollapseDisorder.html

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Brushy Mountain Bee Farm
This supplier of equipment and bees has a FAQ section may prove helpful for some questions.
http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/

Posted in: suppliers, websites on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at at 7:45 PM 0 comments  

Betterbee
This retailer is based in upstate New York. The website sells supplies, bees and has a section of resources.
http://www.betterbee.com/

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Dadant and Sons
This retailer is one of the oldest bee suppliers. They publish books and journals. They have branch locations that also sell supplies.
http://www.dadant.com

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Who’s who in North American Beekeeping
Maintained by Bee Culture Magazine, this state/providence listing of regional, county or state-wide beekeeping associations. If available, address, phone, email, website and contact person information is shared.
http://www.beeculture.com/content/whoswho/

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Bee Master
This website has two main features, a collection of YouTube tutorials (http://www.beemaster.com/honeybee/beehome.htm) and the BeeMaster International Forum/Message Board (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php). 2500+ members of the board support others in a variety of subject areas.
http://www.beemaster.com/

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American Beekeeping Federation
This group support more of the needs of larger scale or commercial beekeepers, including issues related to legislation, importing of bees, queen bees and much more. Information for non-beekeepers and 4-H groups is also available via their website.

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Who’s who in North American Beekeeping
Maintained by Bee Culture Magazine, this website provides a state/providence listing of regional, county or state-wide beekeeping associations. If available, address, phone, email, website and contact person information is shared.
http://www.beeculture.com/content/whoswho/

Posted in: websites on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at at 5:34 PM 0 comments  

HoneyO.com - Home of All Things HoneyTM: US Honey & Beekeeping
Associations: http://www.honeyo.com/org-US_State.shtml

Rationale
This is a very useful website overall. This specific page is full of information related to beekeeping and associations of beekeepers. My target audience for this pathfinder is someone getting started considering beekeeping and finding someone local to provide local information is invaluable. This page provides links to state associations, which then link (most often) to county, city or regional associations.

Posted in: Indexes, websites on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at at 6:23 PM 0 comments  

United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service.
(2005). The ARS Bee Bibliography. Retrieved March 5, 2008, from http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=7494

Rationale
This website has two important links for anyone looking for additional beekeeping related information. The ARS Bee Bibliography was maintained from 1905 – 1973 and contains 30,000 records related to bees, beekeeping, bee products, laws and other issues. The bibliography is searchable through the website.
The second link is to Agricola, the Department of Agriculture’s library catalog. It has a searchable catalog of books and articles, which can be requested via local public or academic library interlibrary loan services. Most of the entries for books have abstracts which are helpful for narrowing down which book would be most helpful.

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