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Read parts of this website's bestselling book: Bad Beekeeping! - A best-seller in the honey bee world! This 5-Star rated book available from amazon.com is a great introduction to keeping honey bees and a fantastic story about the life of a beekeeper! Grant Hicks, a commercial beekeeper, wrote in Hive Lights magazine: "The most impressive honey bee literature that has come my way is a new beekeeping book, Bad Beekeeping." Read more reviews about the book here.

Our hive and honey bee website helps keep honey bee enthusiasts informed! Everything you want to know about beekeeping, honey, and honey bees is right here! (O.K., maybe not everything!) If you can't find what you need to know on in our hive of 54 web pages, we link to over 1000 other honey bee web sites! Whether you are a curious beekeeper from San Diego, San Francisco, or Timbuktu, please read our site for honey bee tips on everything from colony collapse disorder and africanized honey bees, to queen bees and bee pollen, to building a hive and hiving a swarm... it's all here, so join the hive - explore and enjoy!
Check out our Questions and Answers Page where some of the hundreds of e-mail notes from the past thirteen years are posted. Perhaps you were wondering whether honey bees have bones or how to get started with a hive of bees or how to get rid of a hive of bees or... learn more about Honey and Honey Bees and the Hive by jumping to our other pages! A complete directory for this site appears on our Contents Listing Page. The BadBeekeeping webpages are occasionally up-dated with new honey bee photos and notices of meetings added from time to time.

The Beekeeper's Homepages has been freely providing biased honey bee information to the beekeeper and the general public for over fourteen years. If you really want opinions and editorials, be sure to read our Bad Beekeeper's Blog. This site has won a handful of awards, received thousands of nice letters (and some nasty ones, too), and has had over a million visitors. --Thanks for visiting!

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