title: The Honey Bee: A Guide For Beekeepers
author: V.R. Vickery
description: This detailed how-to book is written by a noted Canadian agricultural scholar and bee keeper, who compiled the information in this book for his students after years of academic teaching. This is a serious beekeeping textbook, filled with practical how-to information that covers just about every aspect of bee keeping, complete with lots of photographs, both color and black and white. If you were going to take a serious University course in beekeeping, this is the type of textbook you would expect.
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover Page](00_cover.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Title Page](02_title.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Copyright Page](03_copyright.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Contents](05_contents.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Preface](06_preface.xhtml)
  
  
  * [1: Introduction](08_ch1.xhtml)
  
  
  * [2: Bees in the Forest, Still](09_ch2.xhtml)
  
  
  * [3: Leaving the Wild](10_ch3.xhtml)
  
  
  * [4: Are Honey Bees Domesticated?](11_ch4.xhtml)
  
  
  * [5: The Nest](12_ch5.xhtml)
  
  
  * [6: Annual Cycle](13_ch6.xhtml)
  
  
  * [7: Colony Reproduction](14_ch7.xhtml)
  
  
  * [8: Food Collection](15_ch8.xhtml)
  
  
  * [9: Temperature Control](16_ch9.xhtml)
  
  
  * [10: Colony Defense](17_ch10.xhtml)
  
  
  * [11: Darwinian Beekeeping](18_ch11.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Notes](19_notes.xhtml)
  
  
  * [References](20_references.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Acknowledgments](21_acknowledgments.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Illustration Credits](22_illu.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Index](23_index.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Guide
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover](00_cover.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Title Page](02_title.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Contents](05_contents.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Page List
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover Page](00_cove