APIARY REGISTRATION
FORMS
Ohio Form:
http://www.agri.ohio.gov/public_docs/forms/plant/Plnt_4201-002.pdf
Pennsylvania
Form:
http://www.pastatebeekeepers.org/pdf/registration.pdf
West Virginia Form:
http://www.wvagriculture.org/images/Marketing/ApplicationforApiaryRegistration2-08.pdf
BEEKEEPING BOOKS
Hive and The Honey Bee
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+hive+and+honey+bee&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=3996257785&ref=pd_sl_1zoho63857_b
ABC and XYZ of Beekeeping:
Hive Management
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_15?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hive+management&sprefix=hive+management&ih=12_2_0_0_0_0_1_0_0_1.141_357&fsc=6
Beekeepers Handbook
How to keep Bees and Sell Honey
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_31?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=how+to+keep+bees+and+sell+honey&sprefix=how+to+keep+bees+and+sell+honey&ih=30_1_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_1.94_1757&fsc=12
BEEKEEPING MAGAZINES
American Bee Journal
http://www.americanbeejournal.com/
Bee Culture
http://www.beeculture.com
BEEKEEPING SUPPLIERS
Bee-commerce.com www.bee-commerce.com
Betterbee, Inc www.betterbee.com
Brushy Mountain Bee Farm www.brushymountainbeefarm.com
Dadant & Sons, Inc www.dadant.com
Draper’s Super Bee Apiaries www.draperbee.com
Glorybee Foods, Inc www.glorybee.com
The Honey Bee Container www.thehoneybeecontainer.com
Mann Lake Ltd www.mannlakeltd.com
Miller Bee Supply www.millerbeesupply.com
Plastics Packaging Concept www.ppc3.com
Ross Rounds www.rossrounds.com
Rossman Apiaries www.gabees.com
Simpsons Bee Supplies http://www.simpsonsbeesupply.com
Walter T. Kelley www.kelleybees.com
HONEY BEE SUPPLIERS
Steve Conlon of Thistledew Farm info@thistledewfarm.com 1-800-85-HONEY
Bedillion Honey Farm https://www.bedillionhoneyfarm.com/ (724) 356-7713
Joe Kovaleski josephkovaleski@sbcglobal.net
Paul Poling / Mountain State Honey www.mtnstatehoney.com 1-304-478-4004
EDUCATIONAL SITES
American Bee Journal – http://www.americanbeejournal.com/
Archives of Bee Culture – Gleanings http://www.archive.org/details/novicesgleanings12medi
Bush Farms – http://www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm
Bee Behavior – http://www.beebehavior.com/
Bee Culture – http://www.beeculture.com/
Bee Hive Journal – http://beehivejournal.blogspot.com/
Bee Source – http://www.beesource.com
Earth Observatory – http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Bees/bees4.php
Jamie Ellis, University
of Florida – http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/
University of Florida http://www.extension.org/pages/University_of_Florida_Bee_Disease_Videos
ABUZZ About Bees – http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/beekeeping/atlantic/page4.html
GeoChemBio Home Page – http://www.geochembio.com/biology/organisms/honeybee/
National Honey Board – Honey – http://www.honey.com/nhb/home/
Texas
A & M University
– http://honeybee.tamu.edu/
Mid-Atlantic Apiculture – http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/index.html
Pollination Home Site –
http://www.pollinator.com/
Randy Oliver Scientific Beekeeping – http://www.scientificbeekeeping.com/
Walter Kelley Company –
http://www.kelleybees.com/
GENERAL INFORMATION
Randy Oliver’s website – http://www.scientificbeekeeping.com
Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research
and Extension Consortium – www.maarec.cas.psu.edu
Walter A. Kelly Company – www.welleybees.com
Jamie Ellis, University of Flordia
– www.edis.ifas.ufl.edu
Bee Informed Partnership- surveys
of most effective management –www.beeinformed.org
Pollination home page – http://www.pollinator.com/
The Beekeeper’s Home Pages – http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Beekeeping
World’s First Virtual Beekeeping Gallery.
All information, products and services for beekeeping, bees & honey.
45 hosted companies, journals & associations. Trilingual site: English,
French and Spanish – http://www.beekeeping.com
Go Beekeeping. A web site for the hobby beekeeper interested
in all things related to beekeeping. – http://www.gobeekeeping.com
Texas A&M University’s honey bee information site – http://honeybee.tamu.edu/
American Beekeeping Federation
– http://www.abfnet.org/
HIVE CONSTRUCTION
Langstroth
Hives
https://beesource.com/build-it-yourself/
http://www.myoldtools.com/Bees/bottomboard/bottomboard.htm
http://woodworking.about.com/od/joinery/p/BoxJoints.
Top Bar Hives
http://www.bushfarms.com/beestopbarhives.htm
http://www.beginningbeekeeping.com/TopBarHiveBeekeeping.html
http://www.beethinking.com/topbarhives
http://www.backyardhive.com/
Warre Hives
http://warre.biobees.com/
http://warre.biobees.com
http://www.beethinking.com/warrehives
INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
Who’s Who in North American Beekeeping: List of and links to
University Contacts, Apiary Inspectors, Beekeeping Associations, other
organizations in the beekeeping industry in the United
States and Canada http://www.beeculture.com/content/whoswho
American Beekeeping Federation
P.O. Box 1337, Jessup, GA 31598
Phone: 912-427-4233
Fax: 912-427-8447
Email: info@ABFnet,org
Web: http://www.abfnet.org
American Apitherapy Society
5535 Balboa Blvd., Suite 225,
Encino, CA 91316
Phone: 818.501.0446
Fax: 818.995.9334
email: info@apitherapy.org
web: http://www.apitherapy.org/
National Honey Board
390 Lashley St., Longmont, CO 80501-6045
Phone: (303) 776-2337
Fax: (303) 776-1177
http://www.nhb.org
and http://www.honey.com
International Bee Research Association
16 North Road, Cardiff CF10
3DY, UK
Phone: (+44) (0) 29 2037 2409
Fax: (+44) (0) 5601 135640
Email: mail@ibra.org.uk
http://www.ibra.org.uk/
LOCAL WEBSITES
ThistleDew Farm
RR1 BOX 122
Proctor, WV 26055
Phone: 1-800-85-HONEY
(1-800-854-6639)
Fax: 304-455-1740
info@thistledewfarm.com
STATE BEEKEEPERS
ASSOCIATIONS
West Virginia
Beekeepers Association – www.wvbeekeepers.org
Ohio
Beekeepers Association – www.ohiostatebeekeepers.org
Pennsylvania
Beekeepers Association – www.pastatebeekeepers.org
USDA BEEKEEPING RESEARCH
USDA ARS Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology
Research Unit – Baton Rouge, Louisiana
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm
USDA Bee Research Lab – Weslaco,
Texas
http://www.ars.usda.gov/PandP/locations/people.htm
USDA Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory (Maryland, USA)
http://sun.ars-grin.gov/ars/Beltsville/barc/psi/brl/brl-page.html
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
– Tucson, Arizona
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov
USDA Agricultural Research Service
http://www.ars.usda.gov