Roe Valley Beekeepers RVBKA
Based near Limavady, Northern Ireland
Email for Club: rvbkasecretarylhand@gmail.com
Email for Site: roevalleybeekepers@outlook.com
Bee Book Library
The club keeps a small library of excellent books on a range of subjects related to beekeeping. Club members can borrow books at meetings. The library is managed by Bridget Boyle. If you have a book to donate, please bring it to a club meeting.
In Search of the Best Strains of Bees
Brother Adam
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An account of Brother Adam's journies through Europe and his evaluation of bee races and crosses.
A Recipe For Bees
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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Fiction.
Beekeeping At Buckfast Abbey
Brother Adam
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Methods used by the creator of the Buckfast Bee strain.
Beeswax
Ron Brown
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Wax casting and candle-making from a well know lecturer.
Honeybee Diseases & Pests
Canadian Association of Professional Apiarists
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Includes more on exotic threats and expanded contents about pesticides and a pest management chapter and diagnostic table.
Heather Honey, An Anthology of Works
Ian Copinger​
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A compilation of various card back books that have been written by associations.
The World History of Beekeeping & Honey Hunting
Eve Crane
A detailed history of people's use of bees from prehistoric times to modern times.
Anatomy & Disection of the Honeybee
H.A. Dade
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Key reading by national associations. Excellent diagrams & photographs, including optical microscope images.
The HoneyBee Inside Out
Celia F Davis
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Intermediate to Advanced
Detailed anatomy & physiology in a clear & concise format with many photos & author illustrations. Describes how to do your own disection.
The HoneyBee Inside Out
Celia F Davis
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Intermediate to Advanced
Later edition of this excellent book.
The HoneyBee Around & About
Celia F Davis
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Intermediate to Advanced
Honey bee beginnings, races, health, brood & adult bee disease and function as a pollinator, among other topics.
HoneyBee Around & About 2nd
Celia F Davis
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Intermediate to Advanced
Later edition of this excellent book.
The BBKA Guide to Beekeeping
Ivor Davis
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Aimed at beginners, working with colonies, acquiring bees & keep them healthy & each month of the year and FAQs.
Beekeeping
Andrew Davis
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A practical and inspirational guide to keeping bees and managing an apiary.
Practical Beekeeping
Clive DeBruyn
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A complete guide to the honey bee and its management.
Spoonfuls of Honey
Hattie Ellis
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A guide to honey's flavours and culinary uses, with 80+ recipes.
The Backyard Beekeeper
Kim Flottum
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A guide to beekeeping and a honey cookbook. Covers other uses of honey.
Queen Breeding & Genetics
Eigil Holm
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How to get better bees.
Mating Biology of Honeybees
Gudrun & Nikolaus Koeniger et al
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More in depth information on drones than in many other books.
Waxy Corner
Jenny Gammon
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Uses of wax.
Some Important Operations in Bee Management
TSK and MP Johansson
Beyond the basics, with a focus on increasing profits from beekeeping.
Langstroth's Hive & the Honeybee
Langstroth
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First descriptive treatise on modern beekeeping and discussion of first modern movable frame hive.
Form & Function in the Honeybee
Lesley Goodman
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More than 300 colour illustrations, photographs and diagrams in a guide to bee biology.
Guide To Bees & Honey
Ted Hooper
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An ideal guide for beginner's and a revered reference by many experienced in the craft.
The History of Bees
Maja Lunde
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Fiction spanning 1851 England, United Staes in 2007, to 2098 China.
Healthy Bees Are Happy Bees
Pam Gregory
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Comprehensive guide to bee health and sickness. Details beekeeping problems, diseases, pests and parasites.
Plants For Bees
Kirk & Howes
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All the information needed to create a healthy and productive environment for all UK bee species.
The Life of the Bee
Maurice Maeterlnck
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Philosophy is that 'no living creature, not even man, has acheived in the centre of their sphere, what the bees have acheived'.
Bee
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Clair Preston
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A survey of the natural and cultural history of the bee and the bee's role in art, politics and social thought.
At The Hive Entrance
H Storch
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How to know what is happening inside, by observing what is happening at the entrance.
The Rose Hive Method
Tim Rowe
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Challenges the hives and hive-management processes that are common-place and offers a new approach.
The Buzz About Bees
Jurgen Tantz
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About the colony as an integrated and independent "super-organism".
Honeybee Democracy
Thomas Seeley
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About collective decision-making of the colony.
Honey Bee Veterinary Medicine
Nicolas Vidal-Naquet
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Qualified animal health professionals are becoming involved in global apiculture.
Following The Wild Bees
Thomas Seeley
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A how-to book with a focus on finding wild bees.
Coming soon