Bees and Supplies

Chadwell's Bee Supply: Equipment, Nuc's/splits, and Hives in East Tennessee;
located in Oliver Springs, TN
lmchadwell@comcast.net
Phone; (865) 435-7502

Rose Comb Apiary: - Colony Splits in East Tennessee
located in Clinton, TN
Michael Wilson
865-804-6486

Walter T. Kelly Company - http://www.kelleybees.com/

C F Koehnen & Sons, Inc - http://www.koehnen.com/

Brushy Mountain Bee Farm - http://www.beeequipment.com/

Strachan Apiaries: NWC and Italian queens - http://www.strachanbees.com/

Purvis Brothers Apiaries; - http://www.purvisbrothersbees.com/

Dadant - http://www.dadant.com/

Mann Lake Ltd.- http://www.mannlakeltd.com/

Betterbee - http://www.betterbee.com/

Honey Run Apiaries; - http://www.honeyrunapiaries.com/

JZ's BZ's; American made queen rearing equipment; - www.jzsbzs.com

General

Tennessee Beekeepers Association: http://www.tnbeekeepers.org/

UTK, Beekeeping in Tennessee - http://bees.tennessee.edu

Mid-Atlantic Apiculture; Research and Extension Consortuim: http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/index.html

Dyce Laboratory for Honey Bee Studies: http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/

Apiservices: Beekeeping Gallery; lots of links - http://beekeeping.com/

University of Florida; IFAS Extension; Beekeeping - http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Beekeeping

The Internet Apiculture and Beekeeping Archives - http://www.ibiblio.org/bees/home.html

CAPA; parasites and diseases: http://www.capabees.ca/diseases.htm

Beltsville Bee Research Labroatory - http://www.ba.ars.usda.gov/psi/brl/index.html

Magazines, Journals, and Publications

Apidologie: research journal with online articles - http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=apido

Apis: Apicultural Information and Issues: The newsletter chronicling seventeen years of change in the art and science of beekeeping (1984-2001) - http://apis.ifas.ufl.edu/

Value Added Products From Beekeeping; Book by R.Krell - http://www.fao.org/docrep/w0076e/w0076e00.htm

Bee Culture; The Magazine of American Beekeeping: http://www.beeculture.com/

The Hive and the Honeybee; Selections from the E.F. Phillips Beekeeping Collection at Mann Library: http://bees.library.cornell.edu/

TN Beekeeping Publications, UT/USDA: http://bees.tennessee.edu/pubs.htm

American Bee Journal: http://www.dadant.com/journal/

UC Davis Department of Entomology; Apiculture Newsletter achives - http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mussen/news.cfm

Scholar Google; use this to search for actual research articles on beekeeping, mite treatments, etc, or anything else. http://scholar.google.com/

Sites with Disscussion and Info, proceed with caution:

Bee Source...online source book for beekeeping; includes message board: http://www.beesource.com/

Beemaster's International Beekeeping: http://www.beemaster.com

Bee-L; BEE-L is for the informed discussion of research and information concerning the biology of bees. - http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm

Queen Rearing

David A. Cushman's; "Beekeeping and Bee Breeding" - http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/newhome.html

Glenn Apiaries; breeder queens and information - http://members.aol.com/queenb95/index.html

Ohio Queen Breeders: - http://www.ohioqueenbreeders.com/

Brother Adam's BREEDING THE HONEY BEE, online book - http://www.fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/books/FrAdam/breeding/somm85en.html

Unconventional Beekeepers

Bwrangler's Beekeeping, top bars and more. - http://bwrangler.madpage.com/bee/index.html

George Imire Certified Master Beekeeper: - http://www.beekeeper.org/

Midnight Bee: includes more info by the great George Imire - http://mainebee.com/index.php

Products of the Hive

National Honey Board - http://www.nhb.org/index.html

The American Apitherapy Society- http://www.apitherapy.org/

Shady Grove Meadery - http://www.shadygrovemead.com/default.php

International

Apiconsult: The African Beekeeping Resource Center - http://www.apiconsult.com/index.htm

Bees for Development: - http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/

Beekeeping in New Zealand - http://www.beekeeping.co.nz/

Internatinal Bee Research Association; IBRA - http://www.ibra.org.uk/

Canadian Honey Council - http://www.honeycouncil.ca/users/folder.asp

Pollination

The Pollination Homepage - http://www.pollinator.com/

Pollination in Tennessee: - http://www.tnbeekeepers.org/pit/index.htm

TN Department of Agriculture; Apiary Section: http://www.state.tn.us/agriculture/regulate/apiary/

Insect Pollination Of Cultivated Crop Plants - http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/book/index.html

Botany

NCNatural; Bloom Times for Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians - http://ncnatural.com/wildflwr/blmtime.html

Pollen.com; find out what major pollen source is our there right now; http://pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp

Virginia major honey plants bloom times - http://everest.ento.vt.edu/~fell/apiculture/HoneyPlants/flower.htm

Honey Plants of North Carolina; North Carolina State Beekeepers Association - http://www.ncbeekeepers.org/plants.htm