Additional Resources

The links below are to websites and videos we trust and feel comfortable about recommending to others. As with most anything else on the internet now days, there are some good and some not so good websites, blogs, and social media content. Since there are no filters and no internet police to keep the riff raff out, we recommend sticking with the websites maintained by universities and research biologists, like Texas A & M, FSU - Florida's Dr. Jamie Ellis (links below), LSU, Minnesota and of course Randy Oliver (see below), a commercial beekeeper and research biologist that does serious research and field trials and submits his reports to the USDA and writes monthly for the American Bee Journal since 2006, one of the big beekeeping magazines.

Of course there are others, but these are some of the names and sources we trust.

Randy Oliver

This gentleman is one of our favorites because he understand bees from the microscopic level out. Randy is a research biologist and commercial beekeeper with a wealth of information from basic to advanced level. He puts in tons of hours doing very extensive field trials and research to find out what works and what does not work in the field (not just in the lab or on paper). We've assisted and contributed to a few of these trials for mite meds and understand just how time consuming these things can become and how important they are to conduct in the field to gather the data needed to make decisions for our own hives. Every area has different challenges and outcomes, so we help when we can and share what we learn.

Visit Randy Oliver's Website www.ScientificBeekeeping.com - Beekeeping Through the Eyes of a Biologist - to discover what we consider to be the "Encyclopedia of Beekeeping."

Randy is also a renowned international speaker and writes regularly for the American Bee Journal Magazine.

His website has topics that include:

A YouTube Search for Randy Oliver offers a good deal of lectures and tutorials on various topics, including some of our favorites on the topics of:

Tips for Working Your Bees

Varroa Management, Concepts and Practice

Honey Bee Biology to name a few

Dr. Jamie Ellis

Another world renowned and highly sought after speaker at the international honey show and other beekeeping related conventions. Dr. Ellis has some very informative videos (see links below) on honey bee pests and diseases and more. His lectures at the conferences can be found on YouTube and are packed full of great useful and practical information.

Many of these videos are

Videos by Dr. Jamie Ellis, PhD

Pest & Disease Videos

1) Tracheal Mite (19min 11sec)
2) Nosema Disease (15min 15sec)
3) Small Hive Beetle (18min 12sec)
4) Varroa Mite (25min 22sec)
5) American & European Foulbrood Part 1 (15min 32sec)
6) American & European Foulbrood Part 2 (7min 8sec)

Videos provided by:
Jamie Ellis, PhD, Gahan Endowed Associate Professor
jdellis@ufl.edu
Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory
Department of Entomology and Nematology

University of Florida Bee Lab Website www.UFhoneybee.com

Dr. Tom Seeley

Another of beekeeping's finest ... professor and research gurus.

Dr. Seeley has some awesome videos as well as several books about bee behavior and more.

Honeybee Democracy is a fun and very interesting video (link below) explaining his findings about how bees go about communicating and decision making as a whole - colony mentality.

Thomas Dyer Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University.

A few of our favorites on YouTube:

Tom Seeley: Honeybee Democracy

57:06 YouTube · Cornell University · Feb 15, 2012

Tom Seeley - The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting

1:26:25 YouTube · Iowa Honey Producers Association · Dec 2, 2023

Dr. Thomas Seeley On Bee Behavior, Swarm Piping, Bee ...

38:52 YouTube · Mann Lake Bee Supply · Aug 12, 2025

Seeley, Lives of Bees

1:09:55 YouTube · Albert R. Mann Library · Jun 23, 2020

A YouTube search for Dr. Tom Seeley offers several more video and podcasts to enjoy.

Books on Amazon: Thomas D. Seeley: books, biography, latest update

Dr. Juliana Rangel

Head of the Dept of Entomology at Texas A & M offers great insight to many facets of the honey bee world. A student of Dr. Seeley, she has some fun stories and information about some of the experiments and field studies they conducted together.

She is from South America, so her intimate knowledge of the Africanized "Killer Bees" is priceless. She shares the story of their origin and the challenges the beekeepers face when working with these aggressive bees.

Dr. Juliana Rangel - Head of the Dept. of Entomology at Texas A & M

Africanized Honey Bees

1:00:16 YouTube · National Honey Show · Dec 22, 2015

Biology of the Colony

1:06:38 YouTube · National Honey Show · Jan 15, 2016

Queen Management Essentials

1:19:19 YouTube · NY Bee Wellness · Dec 17, 2022

A YouTube search for Dr. Juliana Rangel offers several more video and podcasts to enjoy.

Educational Materials

From the National Honey Board

Made for kids grade 2-4, these handy activity sheets are designed to teach your kids about bees, honey, and just how important they are to the world. Covering everything from beehives, pollination, how honey is made, and even bee sustainability, each sheet features fun activity kids can do at home or in school.

Teachers can even download printable posters to use in their classrooms!
https://honey.com/bees-sustainability/educational-materials

Images from the hives - many of these can be found with information and details in the FAQs & How To Info sections.

Additional Related and Informative Pages and Websites:

Different Types of Bees - what is currently available

About Africanized Bees - what you should know

About Apitherapy - Basic information with additional resources and links

About Ag Exemption - Texas law now allows the use of honey bees as a way of saving tax dollars

The Texas A & M AgriLife Research - Apiary Inspection website and the Honeybee Lab website at A & M both provide a wealth of additional resources.

As mentioned above, we are part of the Texas Master Beekeeper Program and encourage anyone with a desire to learn more about bees and share their knowledge with the general public to join this program. The TMBP website has all the information and study guides you need to become a Master Beekeeper!

The folks over at Honey Bee Health Coalition have put together a very extensive guide on Varroa Mite Management which includes videos and downloadable guides in both English and Spanish.

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