Helpful Web Sites for All Beekeepers
Here are some other web sites from far and wide that you will enjoy. They are not in any special order.
External sites are not endorsed by the California 4-H Youth Development Program. Linking to these sites also does not imply endorsement of these products or services by 4-H.
The plastic dome hive to the right was inspired by a photo on a web site I found a couple of years ago. Look at that site and others to get ideas for ways to learn about bees and how they work together.
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This one is from Graham Law in England. He visited us in January 2006. http://www.beeginners.info/ |
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| Dave Cushman has a really big site. He is also from England. He helps me a lot! http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/newhome.html |
| The National Honey Board has this site page for children. http://www.honey.com/consumers/kids/ |
| The Betterbee Company sells supplies. http://www.betterbee.com |
| Building plans and information can be downloaded at this site. http://www.beesource.com/plans/index.htm |
| Here's another site from England that is mainly for children. http://www.bees4kids.org.uk/ |
| George Imirie is a master beekeeper here in the United States. His web site is http://www.beekeeper.org |
| If you want to see an absolutely fabulous collection of bee photos, go to http://photo.bees.net/gallery/. Zachary Huang has photos of healthy bees and combs as well as photos of various diseases and mites. This is a very educational site! |
| Bees are insects. When you study them, you are an entomologist. To learn what is inside of a bee look at the Rothamsted Research DeBug interactive entomology web site http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/pie/DeBug/Anatomy.html . You will have fun with other pages on this site while learning a lot about bees and other bugs! The photos are terrific! |
| This site will lead you to many more sites all over the world. You can spend a lifetime looking at various sites. A good thing about this one is the information is organized by subjects which is a big help. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Beekeeping/weblinks.htm |
| Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute has an good site called "Bees: An Interdisciplinary Approach." Teachers and 4-H Leaders will appreciate this one! It is all in black and white so it prints out very nicely. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/6/79.06.04.x.html#j |
| The University of Montana has a very good site. Click on the Kids Pages and you will find all kinds of fun stuff including bee jokes and riddles. http://beekeeper.dbs.umt.edu/bees/ |
 These children and their dad moved the established pastic dome out into my garden over a swarm. Mike, the dad, designed the platform that supports the bell jar. |
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The two observation hive photos were taken by Len Felsenfeld, member of Sonoma County Beekeepers Association. |
 This little guy is trying to find the queen in the observation hive colony. |
Did you know it would take about one ounce of honey to fuel a honey bee's flight around the world?
Hint: Look in the center for a very shiny, long bee.
This was an unusual swarm in October. Because it was so small, it has no good chance of survival.
Using the above web sites and many other resources will contribute to your beekeeping expertise
but putting on that beesuit and actually working with the bees is really necessary and more exciting!
If you have any interesting pictures of children working with or learning about bees, perhaps you would like to share them on this site. Please send them to Ettamarie Peterson, site manager at peterson@svn.net . You will be given credit, of course.
