Modest Bee Library
My modest bee library.
I can't say that its anything great- pretty much your standard collection, if you gather bee books. A few oddballs, and a few aren't here (my fave, Snodgrass's Anatomy of the Honey Bee for example!)- but I try to keep them all in one place.
Top shelf- the one that helped me most over the years- is Ted Hoopers Bees & Honey- very practical, very British. There are some new native pollinator books- and there's Langstroth's great book, and of course, the Art of Beekeeping and Mastering Beekeeping by the Aebis- both teachers of my teacher (and friend)- and that quirky How To Do It by Ralph Taylor- looking Amish before it was cool- and a small stack of Bee Culture magazines (never looked at them, from a local beekeeper Larry Lyden up on Kelly Road) And others. Compton, Maeterlich, and that Scientific American book on bees- love it.
And the lower shelf appears to have a few copies of Archie and Mehetibal, which should be on my cockroach shelf but must have been misfiled, and a book Wasps (they used to make such great books like this!) - and a great government study on Yellow Jackets (ditto!)- and 5 copies of Biggles Book of Beekeeping (for gifts), and the Canadian book by Vickery (very good I think)- and a copy of Huber's New Observations, which is like 40 bucks on Amazon but is THE original researcher on bees and pretty much figure out everything there was except how they communicate- and,as you know, was totally blind (how weird is that?)- and two books on Killer Bees, both called, well, Killer Bees, and a book by Fabre- my teenage hero- The Hunting Wasp which is way cool- as I found it at the Goodwill in Monroe and realize that somewhere in that basin of the Sky river there is - or likely was- somehow who thought that book was worth having (and it is!)- and there is a spanking brand new copy of the ABCs (I regret to think how many old vintage copies I passed by- it always seemed sort of boring to me)- and I LOVE the new ABCs- a great read, not fancy graphics, just an endless fount of beeformation , though in alphabetical order. Fortunately, I guess, Apis, and Bee, are first in line, so we get right to the facts.
There are a bunch of the new how-to books on the shelves- and a few really are super- very helpful. But I avoid the flood of new beekeeper books from the last few years- the ones with super pretty pictures that have blurry backgrounds and usually a lavender field somewhere in it- and some lame chapter on CCD in it and how to save-the-world by planting flowers (sorry_- and always, "when I checked in on my girls" in it- I sort of avoid those now, though who can blame a beekeeper of almost two years trying to write a book about their experiences? Apparently, we depend on bees. Though I know, for a fact, that the hives I have, depend on me. Is that symbiosis?
Somewhere on these shelves is Bee - the one with the electron microscope photos in it - I don't see it now- and that's such a great book- if you want to go on a Fantastic Voyage on a bee and see all those amazing parts and pieces like you were an angstrom tall (are you?) well- its great- the bee, the most studied animal OF ALL TIME, and of course, there are other books that I should be mentioning on these shelves. And sure- there are hundreds and hundreds more that I don't even know about- but wish I did. If you knew me- you'd know that books are a problem- and if you really knew me- you'd know that I own a lot more than I will ever read, and that I tend to read paragraphs only- and not one after the other, just here and there- plus, have a fairly poor memory for facts- but still. I love bees, and books.
I can't say that its anything great- pretty much your standard collection, if you gather bee books. A few oddballs, and a few aren't here (my fave, Snodgrass's Anatomy of the Honey Bee for example!)- but I try to keep them all in one place.
Top shelf- the one that helped me most over the years- is Ted Hoopers Bees & Honey- very practical, very British. There are some new native pollinator books- and there's Langstroth's great book, and of course, the Art of Beekeeping and Mastering Beekeeping by the Aebis- both teachers of my teacher (and friend)- and that quirky How To Do It by Ralph Taylor- looking Amish before it was cool- and a small stack of Bee Culture magazines (never looked at them, from a local beekeeper Larry Lyden up on Kelly Road) And others. Compton, Maeterlich, and that Scientific American book on bees- love it.
And the lower shelf appears to have a few copies of Archie and Mehetibal, which should be on my cockroach shelf but must have been misfiled, and a book Wasps (they used to make such great books like this!) - and a great government study on Yellow Jackets (ditto!)- and 5 copies of Biggles Book of Beekeeping (for gifts), and the Canadian book by Vickery (very good I think)- and a copy of Huber's New Observations, which is like 40 bucks on Amazon but is THE original researcher on bees and pretty much figure out everything there was except how they communicate- and,as you know, was totally blind (how weird is that?)- and two books on Killer Bees, both called, well, Killer Bees, and a book by Fabre- my teenage hero- The Hunting Wasp which is way cool- as I found it at the Goodwill in Monroe and realize that somewhere in that basin of the Sky river there is - or likely was- somehow who thought that book was worth having (and it is!)- and there is a spanking brand new copy of the ABCs (I regret to think how many old vintage copies I passed by- it always seemed sort of boring to me)- and I LOVE the new ABCs- a great read, not fancy graphics, just an endless fount of beeformation , though in alphabetical order. Fortunately, I guess, Apis, and Bee, are first in line, so we get right to the facts.
There are a bunch of the new how-to books on the shelves- and a few really are super- very helpful. But I avoid the flood of new beekeeper books from the last few years- the ones with super pretty pictures that have blurry backgrounds and usually a lavender field somewhere in it- and some lame chapter on CCD in it and how to save-the-world by planting flowers (sorry_- and always, "when I checked in on my girls" in it- I sort of avoid those now, though who can blame a beekeeper of almost two years trying to write a book about their experiences? Apparently, we depend on bees. Though I know, for a fact, that the hives I have, depend on me. Is that symbiosis?
Somewhere on these shelves is Bee - the one with the electron microscope photos in it - I don't see it now- and that's such a great book- if you want to go on a Fantastic Voyage on a bee and see all those amazing parts and pieces like you were an angstrom tall (are you?) well- its great- the bee, the most studied animal OF ALL TIME, and of course, there are other books that I should be mentioning on these shelves. And sure- there are hundreds and hundreds more that I don't even know about- but wish I did. If you knew me- you'd know that books are a problem- and if you really knew me- you'd know that I own a lot more than I will ever read, and that I tend to read paragraphs only- and not one after the other, just here and there- plus, have a fairly poor memory for facts- but still. I love bees, and books.
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