Useful Links

It would be an impossible task to try to match the tremendous lists of beekeeping links other web sites have assembled. The sparse collection below will, however, offer a basic starting point. From here you can begin to explore the world's bee sites. Suggestions for more sites gratefully received.

For the British Bee Keeping Association go to www.bbka.org.uk. Lots of information about British bee keeping, plus links to the sites of other associations across the U.K.

Plants With Purpose specialise in the more unusual, overlooked and surprising useful plants and herbs rarely to be found in garden centres. A wonderful collection, grown organically! If you'd like to pamper your bees you can find many of their favourite plants at www.plantswithpurpose.co.uk. (N.B. Margaret Lear is a bee keeper.)

A cornucopia of bee keeping news and information is available at www.beedata.com.

For an insight into beekeeping in Sweden, P-O's web site at www.beeman.se shows how a little extracting for your friends can become a small industry! Interesting pictures of bee keeping around the world.

A massive listing of bee-related links (over 700 at the last count!) is available at ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Beekeeping.

If you would like to see an observation hive live on-line go to the University of Montana at beekeeper.dbs.umt.edu/bees and click on 'bee cams'.

UM have been involved in training bees to detect land mines and explosives. Go to http://beekeeper.dbs.umt.edu/bees/news.html.

If you are visiting another bee keeper for the first time check the route and find a map or even an aerial photograph of the area at www.multimap.co.uk, www.192.com or www.maporama.co.uk. They cover Europe and other parts of the world too.
For good local maps you can't beat http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap

Interesting pictures at www.badassbees.com and, as it's a New Zealand site, lots about Kiwis too (the animal, not the fruit!)

North London Beekeepers have a well established and comprehensive site at: beekeeping.org.uk/NL/. Well worth a look.

A diary of life on a bee farm in Canada.
See http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/

Shropshire Beekeepers' new web site can be seen at www.shropshirebees.co.uk.

Beekeeping and Mead Making in South Africa: iqhilika.co.za. Well worth a visit.

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