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If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems
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4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Hives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees Alive in an Urban World
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4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
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3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.71 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World
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4.36 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting
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4.32 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees: From Hive Management to Honey Harvesting and More
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3.68 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Bees Make the Best Pets: All the Buzz about Being Resilient, Collaborative, Industrious, Generous, and Sweet-Straight from the Hive
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4.15 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Bees & Bee-Keeping
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Queenspotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive
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4.60 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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4.16 avg rating — 174,003 ratings
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Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World - One Backyard at a Time
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4.15 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators
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4.30 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World
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3.99 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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The Hive and the Honey Bee
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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All the Bees in the Hollows
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3.68 avg rating — 286 ratings
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The Practical Beekeeper: Beekeeping Naturally
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4.48 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
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4.17 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide
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4.66 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping: Everything the Budding Beekeeper Needs for a Healthy, Productive Hive
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4.04 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
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4.32 avg rating — 12,141 ratings
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive
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4.31 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
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3.97 avg rating — 718 ratings
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Pollinator Friendly Gardening: Gardening for Bees, Butterflies, and Other Pollinators
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4.40 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies
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4.43 avg rating — 37 ratings
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What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight
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4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
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3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Wild Honey Bees: An Intimate Portrait
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4.43 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
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3.91 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
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4.31 avg rating — 737 ratings
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At the Hive Entrance
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4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
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3.69 avg rating — 386 ratings
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The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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A History of Honey in Georgia and the Carolinas
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment: How to Construct 8- & 10-Frame Hives; Top Bar, Nuc & Demo Hives; Feeders, Swarm Catchers & More
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3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Farming for the Landless: New perspectives on the cultivation of our honeybee
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Asheville Bee Charmer Cookbook: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by 28 Honey Varietals and Blends
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4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
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3.78 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Tupelo Honey Southern Spirits & Small Plates (Volume 3) (Tupelo Honey Cafe)
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper: What Not to Do When Keeping Bees
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3.78 avg rating — 204 ratings
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The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees
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3.46 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Beekeeping: Self-Sufficiency (The Self-Sufficiency Series)
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3.74 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Seven Culinary Wonders of the World: A History of Honey, Salt, Chile, Pork, Rice, Cacao, and Tomato
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3.49 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them
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4.19 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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Sweet Nature: A Cook's Guide to using Honey and Maple Syrup
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3.46 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Painting for Honey Bees: A Beekeeper Educates With Art (1)
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.71 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Bees: Nature's Little Wonders
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3.82 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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4.20 avg rating — 2,455 ratings
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The Sting of the Wild
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4.09 avg rating — 940 ratings
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A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey
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3.60 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper
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3.60 avg rating — 402 ratings
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The Urban Beekeeper: A Year of Bees in the City
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3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
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3.99 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Bees: Poems
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3.76 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper
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3.55 avg rating — 600 ratings
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The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
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3.92 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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Beeconomy: What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market
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3.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives
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4.15 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Barefoot Beekeeper : A simple, sustainable approach to small-scale beekeeping top bar hives
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4.15 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive (The Magic School Bus, #8)
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4.17 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
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4.15 avg rating — 4,171 ratings
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The Life of the Bee
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3.88 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Bee Health
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4.12 avg rating — 328 ratings
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A Beekeeper's Year
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3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Save the Bees with Natural Backyard Hives: The Easy and Treatment-Free Way to Attract and Keep Healthy Bees
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4.15 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Idle Beekeeper: The Low-Effort, Natural Way to Raise Bees
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4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Thinking Beekeeper: A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives
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4.14 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Honeybee Man
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3.89 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
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4.16 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
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4.31 avg rating — 737 ratings
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The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
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4.13 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Better Beekeeping: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Stronger Colonies and Healthier, More Productive Bees
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4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Common Sense Natural Beekeeping: Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive
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3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Keeping Bees with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More
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4.08 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Rooftop Beekeeper: A Scrappy Guide to Keeping Urban Honeybees
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3.86 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Honey Bee Hobbyist: The Care and Keeping of Bees
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Keeping Bees And Making Honey
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3.97 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World
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3.62 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Bee Journal
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3.54 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Guide to Bees and Honey
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4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Bee Book For Beginners: An Apiculture Starter or How To Be A Backyard Beekeeper And Harvest Honey From Your Own Bee Hives (Backyard Farm Books)
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3.55 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The History of Bees
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3.81 avg rating — 49,054 ratings
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The Bee-Kind Garden: Apian wisdom for your garden
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3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Hive : The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.71 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey
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3.99 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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The Benevolent Bee
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4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet
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3.80 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Bee
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3.52 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health
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4.39 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Beekeeping: Step-by-Step Guide For Beginner and Advanced Beekeepers
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
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3.94 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Little Book of Bees: An Illustrated Guide to the Extraordinary Lives of Bees
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4.53 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World
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4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Love Bees: A family guide to help keep bees buzzing - With games, stickers and more
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4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Give Bees a Chance
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4.20 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
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4.54 avg rating — 1,940 ratings
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Attracting Native Pollinators; Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies
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4.40 avg rating — 304 ratings
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The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters
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3.91 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Experienced beekeepers know that the real test is in keeping the bees alive for more than the first 2-3 years. Unfortunately, many books written on the subject are based on limited (and initially successful) efforts.
Other Goodreads lists that cover or include beekeeping, honey bees, and related topics:
• Serious Beekeeping Books
• The Bee-Loud Glade
• Being “Green”
• Permaculture & Homesteading Books