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Links
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Beekeeping Blog
This links to an interesting blog containing historical information about beekeeping, along with practical advice, aimed particularly at new beekeepers.

Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance. He is Acting State Apiarist for Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, studying colony collapse disorder -- the alarming, worldwide disappearance of worker bees
This link takes you to another site containing a good description of bee colony biology & organisation as a starter for ten, whilst you are trying to make sense of all the other bits of information
Resources for Biology Education by D G Mackean
Here is a site containing useful info for beginners in beekeeping. Click here to be directed to it
Need something about bees for a school project,
or simply something to start you off?
Download this useful fact sheet from IBRA
(International Bee Research Association) by clicking here
Clicking on the AFBI logo
will download their
Report on Winter losses 2008-9
Clicking on the AFBI logo
will download their
Report on Winter losses 2009-10
Click on the RHS bee logo to visit the Royal Horticultural Society website for details of their new campaign to encourage the purchase of pollinator plants in support of bees and other pollinator insects.
You can also download the RHS list of pollinator plants by clicking this link (downloads as a pdf file)