Bees & Beekeeping : Online Resources

This manual covers information on the basic facts of beekeeping: the types of bees, the honey and wax they produce, the plants that attract bees, and the equipment a beekeeper needs.

This manual colony describes how to care
for a beehive throughout the year. This will include basic beekeeping operations that result in the production of extracted, chunk, or cut comb honey

The advanced topics include: increasing the number of your honey bee colonies, increasing honey production, producing special kinds of honey, learning more about the bee societies and how to manage honey bee diseases and parasites.

Maintained by Cornell University

Maintained by the WNYHPA

Directory maintained by Mastersons in East Aurora, N.Y.

List of resources such as Organic Beekeeping Management, Spring Colony Management, Homemade Protein Supplement Recipe, and Bee Hive Construction Plans.

The Beesource Beekeeping website was started in 1997 and today has over 28,000 members.

Hilary Kearney's blog is dedicated to fun, accessible learning for new and experienced beekeepers. Hilary has been beekeeping since 2010 and manages around 80 colonies.

Created by Roger Morse and Elton Dyce in 1982. This publication still serves as a great resource for beekeeping in New York State. This bulletin highlights the major honey producing regions of the state and includes general information for purchasing bees and equipment.

Written by Christina Wahl,Ph.D., Linda Mizer, DVM, Ph.D., and Diana Sammataro, Ph.D.
This document helps beekeepers determine whether their colonies are ready for wintering in the Northeast US. It includes recommendations and best management practices for how to prepare your colonies for winter. If beekeepers find dead colonies in spring, they can use the decision-making tool in this guide to determine the cause of death.

This calendar outlines month-by-month the beekeeping activities to consider to maintain healthy, productive colonies. Emphasis is placed on inspection, nutrition, managing pests and diseases, and bloom times for important plants.

This publication was created by Tom Seeley, Roger Morse, and Richard Nowogrodzki. It discusses the biology and ecology of swarming, as well as instructions for how beekeepers can build, position, and maintain a bait hive to catch swarms.