Resources

Bee Anatomy

•  Colors Bees See

Bee Friendly Plants 

• NASA forage zones

Books 

• A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, Sue Hubbell
• Bad Beekeeping, Ron Miksha
• Beekeeping: A Practical Guide, Richard E. Bonney
• Beekeeping for Dummies, Howland Blackiston
• Fifty Years Among the Bees, Dr. C. C. Miller
• Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture, Ross Conrad
• The Beekeeper’s Handbook, Alphonse Avitabile

• The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters, Simon Buxton

Classes (Local)

• San Diego Beekeeping Society 
• Girl Next Door Honey 
• City Farmer's Nursery
• Flowers Across Sydney

Education 

•  Nieh Lab, Dr. James Nieh UCSD
•  California Master's Beekeeping Program
•  Grade Cluster K-3
•  Pollinator Partnership
•  Africanized Honey Bees lesson plans for grades K through 12
•  Glory Bee Foods 
•  Bees-on-the-Net
•  Brushy Mountain Bee Farm Video Library

Local Bee Supply Stores ​

•  City Farmers Nursery
•  Knorr Beeswax Candles 

History

•  E.W. Morse and the San Diego County Beekeeping Industry, 1875-1884 
•  John’s Beekeeping Notebook
•  John S. Harbison: Pioneer San Diego Beekeeper 

Magazines 

• American Bee Journal
• Bee Culture 
• Chemical Free Keeping
• The Barefoot Beekeeper
• Backwards Beekeepers
• Bush Bees

Podcasts and Blogs 

• Organically Managed Beekeeping Podcast and Blog ​

Queens

•  Wildflower Meadows  
•  C F Koehnen & Sons, Inc., Glenn, CA ​
•  Kona Queen Hawaii, Hawaii, HI
•  Olivarez Honey Bees , Inc, Chico, CA 

Online Communities

• Bee Source
• Natural Beekeeping Network
• International Beekeeping Community 

Other 

• Pollen.com
•  Bee Identification Tool
•  Honey Bee Diagnostic Lab

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Varroa Mites

• ​EPA Approved Varroa Mite Treatments