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The Pink Pages
George Wady Imirie Jr., 84, was a master beekeeper who shared his knowledge through his opinionated and blunt newsletter called the "Pink Pages". He studied for a graduate degree in atomic engineering and worked on the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII.

He coined the popular phrase, "Be a bee-keeper, not a bee-haver."

I have indexed a verbatim copy of his notes for beekeeping prosperity.

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BEEKEEPING IN THE MIDWEST

ELBERT R. JAYCOX , CIRCULAR 1125

Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This circular was reprinted April 1985 with minor revisions by E.E. Killion, Extension Specialist in Apiculture. Elbert R. Jaycox was Professor of Apiculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from 1963 to 1981.

Photographs by the author and Killion.

This publication includes information about insecticides, chemicals, drugs, and other materials whose usage is regulated by state and federal agencies. Every effort has been made to provide information that is current and correct as of the date of publication. However, the status of some materials is not clear, and that of others may change at any time. Anyone using regulated materials, or planning to do so, should read and follow the label directions. If there is any question about the use of such materials, contact the extension apiculturist or extension entomologist in your state, or the local extension adviser or county agent. Beekeeping periodicals often include announcements about changes in the accepted uses of regulated materials by beekeepers.
So that the information in this publication may be more easily understood, trade names of products or equipment have been used in place of complicated descriptions or chemical identification. No endorsement of named products is intended, nor is criticism implied of similar products that are not mentioned.
 

 
American Foulbrood

A collection of articles and papers.

"AFB is the most serious bacterial disease of honey bee brood and is caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae"

"It is extremely contagious and spreads easily on contaminated equipment, hive tools, and beekeeper’s hands.
A beekeeper’s best way to manage AFB is to avoid it."
 

 


HOT WAX DIPPING OF BEEHIVE COMPONENTS
For preservation & sterilisation 

A report for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
By Russell Goodman Institute for Horticultural Development Agriculture Victoria Knoxfield
May 2001 RIRDC Publication No 01/051 RIRDC Project No. DAV-167A
 2001 Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment
All rights reserved
ISBN 0 642 58273 4
ISSN 1440-6845
Hot wax dipping of beehive components for preservation and sterilisation
Publication No. 01/051
Project No. DAV-167A
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Published in May 2001, Printed on environmentally friendly paper by Canprint
 

 
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THE LIFE OF THE BEE

[Samuel] Goldwyn boasted that the greatest living writers were on his team of authors [at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer] and he would spare no expense to get them, even if his ideas about their output were rather vague.

One of the literary celebrities he lured to Hollywood was the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for literature and author of the enormously successful La Vie des abeilles (The Life of the Bee).

When Maeterlinck arrived, fearful of his ignorance of motion-picture technique, Goldwyn reassured him: "I know you don't understand picture technique. That doesn't matter. All I want you to do is just go away and write your greatest book over in the form of a scenario."

A few weeks later Maeterlinck returned with a manuscript. Goldwyn was delighted and retired beaming into his office, taking the manuscript with him to read. A couple of minutes later he rushed out again screaming. "My God," he yelled, "the hero is a bee!"

(Source: The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes)

 
 
 
SMALL SCALE BEEKEEPING
Acknowledgements and credits

The ideas of many people went into this manual. The exact source of many of these ideas is lost as they came from beekeepers in many places with whom I've worked or whose writtings I've read. Thanks to all these friends ans teachers. The care and patience of many people also went into the manual, for all their help in typing, edition, proofing, laying out, and commenting, I thank:

Mark Coleman Jean Cummings Liz Davidson
Calvina Dupre Valerie Flynn de Villa Donna Frelick
Shannon Green Mary Lou Haag Sharon Hagen
Marie Kabelitz Rob Kingsolver John Oliver
Fay Reilley Dr. Lucas Villa
Written by Curtis Gentry in December 1982
Illustrated by Stacey Leslie
 
 
 
LANGSTROTH ON THE HIVE AND THE HONEY-BEE,

A Bee Keeper's Manual,

BY
REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH.

NORTHAMPTON: HOPKINS, BRIDGMAN & COMPANY.
1853.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by L. L. LANGSTROTH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.


C. A. MIRICK, PRINTER, GREENFIELD.

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Does the flower make the honeybee or the honeybee the flower?