Introduction To Beekeeping
- Guide to Bees and Honey – Ted Hooper
- Practical Beekeeping – Clive de Bruyn
Proficiency in Beekeeping
Recommended Book List
- Anatomy & Dissection of the Honeybee H A Dade
- Great Masters of Beekeeping R Brown
- Guide to Bees & Honey Ted Hooper (All should have this)
- The Honeybee Inside Out Celia Davis
- The Honeybee Around & About Celia Davis
- Queen Rearing & Bee Breeding by H Laidlaw & R Page
- Solitary Bees & Wasps CW Andrews
- Beekeeping Study Notes JD Yates – Modules “1 2 3 & 4” + “5 6 7 8”
- Having Healthy Honey Bees John McMullan FIBKA ISBN 978-0-9571355-0-5
- The Biology of the Honey Bee Mark L Winston ISBN 0-674-07409-2
- Beekeeping in Ireland – A History James K Watson ISBN 0-907-606-008
- Form and Function in the Honey Bee Lesley Goodman ISBN 0-86098-243-2
- Practical Beekeeping Clive De Bruin ISBN 1-86126-049-0
- ‘The Native Irish Honey Bee’ published by NIHBS
- ISBN: 978-1-5272-9201-7
Advisory Leaflets
All the FERA leaflets are excellent and can be downloaded from https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/index.cfm?pageid=167
The 4 Disease booklets have previously been provided to the Preliminary classes. They are:-
- Managing Varroa
- Small Hive Beetle
- Foulbrood Disease of Honey Bees
- Tropilaelaps: Parasitic Mites of Honey Bees
Best Practice Guidelines
Beginning in 2010 the National Bee Unit put together a series of Best Practice Guidelines, which cover the essentials of the craft of beekeeping. These are placed on BeeBase. The National Bee Unit https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/index.cfm?sectionid=43