Beekeeping Books

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced beekeeper, Beekeeping in Western Canada provides the essential guidance to manage honey bees effectivel...

Discover the wonder of beekeeping and bee-friendly gardening with The Bee Book - a beautifully illustrated guide perfect for beginners and nature l...

The Beekeeper’s Bible is the ultimate guide for anyone fascinated by bees and beekeeping. Part practical handbook, part history, and part cookbook,...

The Beekeeper’s Problem Solver by James E. Tew offers clear, practical solutions to 100 common beekeeping problems, making it an essential r...

A handbook to beekeeping, featuring advice for: setting up and caring for your own colonies; the best location to place your new bee colonies; the...

The Beekeeper’s Journal is the perfect companion for every beekeeper looking to stay organized and track their hive adventures. With dedicated page...

The Little Book of Bees by Hilary Kearney is a beautifully illustrated celebration of the extraordinary world of bees. From their 130-million-year ...

  Beginning Beekeeping is a comprehensive, approachable guide for anyone ready to start their beekeeping journey. Tanya Phillips presents the fund...

Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University. He is the author of Following the Wild Bees, Honeybee Democracy,...

Beekeeping For Dummies, 5th Edition (updated September 2020), is one of the most popular titles in the For Dummies series available today. Includin...

This Beekeeping Log Book is perfect to track the health and condition of your bees and hives. Keeping accurate records is vital to any apiary, with...

This guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by illustrations for setting up an apiary, hand...

  The second edition of Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees is a comprehensive reference for beekeepers, covering hive management, colony health,...

Raising your own queens is one of the most powerful steps a beekeeper can take—and with the Nicot non-grafting system, it’s more accessible than ev...

This expanded version of the Future Farmers of America (FFA)–licensed Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping​ is the complete DIY guide for budding be...

  Beekeeping for Beginners by Amber Bredshaw is an easy-to-follow guide for new beekeepers. Learn the fundamentals of hive setup, colony care, and...

An incomparable illustrated look at the critical role bees play in the life of our planet Worker and Hive note- cool book with great images! Bees ...

Methods used by Brother Adam, creator of the Buckfast Bee strain, to manage bee colonies in Devon, England. Emphasis on general observation.

This Beekeeping Log Book is perfect to track the health and condition of your bees and hives. Keeping accurate records is vital to any apiary, with...

The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the song of increase--declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are ha...

Langstroth’s Hive and the Honey-Bee is the groundbreaking classic that shaped modern beekeeping. As the first comprehensive and practical guide to ...

A million pounds of honey. Produced by a billion bees! This memoir reconstructs the life of a young man from Pennsylvania as he drops into the bald...

Following in the tradition of Honey Farming by R.O.B. Manley (1946) and Honey By The Ton by Oliver Field (1983), this book by Steve Donohoe and Pau...

Ready to take your beekeeping skills to the next level? In Business with Bees provides the answers you need.   This book takes serious beekeepers p...

Modern beekeeping, influenced by new technologies and breeding methods, has increased honey production but left bee colonies weak and vulnerable to...

Discover how to successfully attract and capture swarms—even when you can’t be there in person. In this engaging and practical guide, Grant F. C. G...

Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth is considered ‘the father of American beekeeping.’ The claim is probably too modest. His design for a beehive is used t...

By Andrew Cote  A year in the life of New York City's premier beekeeper, who chronicles his adventures and the quirky personalities he encounters w...

More than 150 years after L.L. Langstroth invented the movable-comb hive and brought beekeeping into the modern age, we can still learn from this h...

A trusted classic for new and experienced beekeepers alike, First Lessons in Beekeeping by Camille P. Dadant offers a clear and engaging introducti...

A Practical Treatise on the Hive and the Honey-Bee – L. L. Langstroth (Third Edition, 1860 – Republished 2014) Discover one of the most important w...

Becoming a successful beekeeper is not as difficult as people think, with this essential guide, you will learn how to get started in beekeeping, cr...

In the beginning...it was all about the honeybee, but there's another bee out there that deserves equal - if not more - recognition. A true native ...

The Backyard Beekeeper, 5th Edition makes the art of beekeeping enjoyable and accessible for anyone with a garden or a curiosity about bees. This u...

I am frequently asked, "Grant, if there was one thing I could do, as a new beekeeper, what would you recommend? What one thing can I start doing th...

A foundational classic in beekeeping literature, Scientific Queen Rearing by G.M. Doolittle remains one of the most influential guides on producing...