Dr. Dan Margolies  ø  Batten Associate Professor, History Dept., Virginia Wesleyan College

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Beekeeping at VWC

A great picture of our Wesleyan bees by John Aird

 

lots of links below

Here are some photos of students learning how to extract and bottle honey, September 2006

photos by Max Wuttke

Full supers read to extract    

The Bee Yard as it looked in Spring 2006, 18 hives strong, waiting for the blooms to start:

 

My "Bees and Beekeeping" class inspects a hive in February

2005 hive installation (photos by John Aird)

 

Pictures of the 2004 installation taken by John Aird

 

 

The Virginia Wesleyan College Student Beekeeper's Association page

An article about the VWC beekeeping program that appeared in the Virginian-Pilot

A few selected photographs of the VWC hive installation, Spring 2002:

   

 

Beekeeping Sites

Wesleyan bees taken by John Aird 

 

Have some good links?  I always need more, please send them to me!  dmargolies@vwc.edu

Africanized Honey Bees Home Page

Africanized Bees in Arizona

 Africanized Bees in California

Africanized Bees in Florida

Africanized Bees in Mexico

American Association of Professional Apiculturists

American Bee Journal
American Beekeeping Federation
American Honey Producers Association

APIS (University of Florida Beekeeping Newsletter)

Apitheraphy Reference Database

Apitherapy Information and Supplies

Apitherapy Page - Bee Venom Journal

Article on Controlling Tracheal Mites in Bees (Ohio State)

Bee Culture

Bee World

Beekeeping (Penn State)

Beekeeping and the Tracheal Mite

Beekeepers in Virginia

Beekeeping links

Beekeepers, Honeybees, Beehives, and Honey

Bee-L list with archives

Bees and Beekeeping sources of information and equipment

Bees for Development

Beltsville Bee Research laboratory

The Biology of the Honeybee, Apis Mellifera

D. Cooper's Bee Tidbits

Directory of Entomological Societies: North America

Gardening for Native Bees in North America

The Grumbling Hive, or, Knaves Turned Honest (Bernard Mandeville)

Hive and the Honeybee (Cornell University)

Honey Bee Dance: Communication

Honey Bee Disease Diagnosis and Information

Honey Bee Genome Resources

A Honey Bee Population Dynamics Simulation Model

Honey Bee Quiet

Honey Bee Research: Labs Around the World

Info resources for presentations

Insect Pollination Of Cultivated Crop Plants

International Bee Research Association

Journal of Apicultural Research

Keith Delaplane's site

National Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Network

Ohio State University Honey Bee Breeding Program

Plants Attractive to Native Bees

Plants for Year Round Bee Forage in the South

Pollination (UGA)

Pollination: A Grower's Last Chance to Increase Yields

Pollination Homepage

The Pollinator Conservation Digital Library

The Speedy Bee

Tidewater Beekeepers Association Virginia's largest local bee group.  I am past President (2003-4) and Vice President (2002-3)

Top bar Hive Beekeeping

Top Bar Beekeeping in Kenya

UGA Entomology Department

UGA Honey Bee Program

USDA Baton Rouge Bee Laboratory

Virginia State Beekeepers Association

Wax Moths and Their Control

 

 

 

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