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Borrowing Books – Rules
| HBA Library Books available to borrow | |
| Author | Title |
| A.E.S | Hymenopterist’s Handbook |
| ABBOTT | Me and the Bee |
| ABBOTT | Queen Breeding for Amateurs |
| ABERCROMBIE | A Dictionary of Biology |
| ADAM | In Search of the Best Strains of Bees |
| ADAM | Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey |
| ADAM | Breeding the Honeybee |
| ADEY & WALKER | Pest Control safe for Bees |
| AEBI | Art & Adventure of Beekeeping |
| AEBI | Mastering the Art of Beekeeping Volume 2 |
| AGR. EXP.STATION | Biology & External Morphology of Bees |
| AHLBERG | Mr Buzz the Beeman |
| ALBRECHT | Discourse on Bee Culture [Latin text] |
| ALBRECHT/VERNON | Discourse on Bee Culture [English translation] |
| ALFORD | Bumble Bees |
| ALFORD | Insect Atlas of the British Isles Part 3 Bumble Bees |
| ALFORD | Life of the Bumble Bee |
| ALLEN | Beekeeping with 20 Hives |
| ALSTON | Skeps: Their History, Making and Use |
| ALSTON | Hives and Honeybees in Signs and Symbols |
| ALTHEA | About Bees & Honey |
| ANDREWES | Lives of Wasps and Bees |
| ANDREWS | Mead and Mead Making |
| ANON | Potpourri & Other Fragrant Compounds & Recipes |
| APIMONDIA | Genetics selection & reprod. of the honeybee |
| APIMONDIA | Complete text of 21st Congress – Maryland USA |
| APIMONDIA | Hive Products: food; health & beauty |
| APIMONDIA | Varroasis – Honeybee Disease |
| APIMONDIA | Propolis |
| APIS CLUB (BETTS) | Diseases of Bees |
| ARMITT | Beekeeping for Recreation & Profit |
| ATKINSON | Background to Beekeeping |
| B.B.K.A | Modern Beekeeping |
| B.B.K.A | Honeybee Anatomy |
| B.B.K.A | Bees in the Curriculum |
| BAILEY | Infectious diseases of the Honeybee |
| BAILEY | Honeybee Pathology |
| BARRATT | Whole-time Beekeeping |
| BARTHOLOMEUS | Bestiary Book XII – with translation |
| BASTIN | Insect Communities |
| BATES | Introduction to Bee Houses |
| BECK | Honey and Your Health |
| BECKLEY | Keeping Bees |
| BEECH (ED) | Home-made Wines Syrups & Cordials |
| BENBOW | The Urban Beekeeper |
| BENJAMIN & McCALLUM | A World without Bees |
| BENT | Swarm Control Survey |
| BERTHOLD | Beeswax Crafting |
| BETTS | Diseases of Bees |
| BETTS | Practical Bee Anatomy |
| BIELBY | Home Honey Production |
| BONNEY | Hive Management A Seasonal Guide |
| BORD | Honey – Natural Food and Healer |
| BOWEN | Bees Illustrated Part 1 Outline of Swarm Prevention |
| BREKELMANS | Skep Making |
| BRETT | Honey from your Garden |
| BRIAN | Social Insect Populations |
| BROWN | Beeswax |
| BROWN | 1000 years of Devon Beekeeping |
| BROWN | A Simple 2-Queen System |
| BROWN | Great Masters of Beekeeping |
| BROWN | A Bee Melody |
| BUCHSBAUM | Animals Without Backbones- Vol 1 |
| BUCHSBAUM | Animals Without Backbones- Vol 2 |
| BUCKLE | Do you know about Honeybees? |
| BUTLER | Honeybee |
| BUTLER | World of the Honeybee |
| BUTLER | The World of the Honeybee |
| BUZZARD | Shining Hours |
| CALDER | Oilseed Rape and Bees |
| CALDER | Recipes using Beeswax |
| CALDER | Honey Favourites |
| CALDER | Health from Honey |
| CAMPBELL | Harry’s Bee |
| CANADA | A Canadian Honey Recipe Book |
| CARON | Africanised Honey Bees in the Americas |
| CARSON | Silent Spring |
| CARTER | Hive Bee |
| CARTER | Bees & Honey |
| CARTLAND | Magic of Honey |
| CHAPMAN | Honeybee and her Master |
| CHAPMAN | Constructive Beekeeping |
| CHAPMAN | The Bee Shelter at Hartpury |
| CHARLES | Somerset Beekeepers & Beekeeping Assoc a history 1875-2005 |
| CHAUVIN | The World of an Insect |
| CHEESEMAN | Insects Indomitable |
| CHESHIRE | Practical Beekeeping |
| CLARK | Beekeeping |
| CLEMENTS | A.W.Gale; The Man and the Business |
| COMSTOCK | Introduction to Entomology |
| CONNOR (ED) | Asian Apiculture |
| COOK | Queen Rearing Simplified |
| COOPER | Honeybees of the British Isles |
| COTTON | Manual of N.Z. Beekeeping |
| COUSTON | Principles of Practical Beekeeping |
| COWAN | Beneficial..Pollination of Fruit by Bees |
| COWAN | Waxcraft |
| CRANE | Dictionary of Beekeep’g Terms [Eng/Fr/Gmn/Dut/Lat] |
| CRANE | Book of Honey |
| CRANE | Honey |
| CRANE | The Archeology of Beekeeping |
| CRANE | Bees & Beekeeping |
| CRANE | World History of Beekeeping |
| CRANE | The Archeology of Beekeeping |
| CRANE | Dictionary of Beekeep’g Terms [Eng/Fr/Gmn/Dut/Lat] |
| CRANE & WALKER | Impact of Pest Management on bees & pollination |
| CRIBB | Beekeeping That Pays |
| CROFT | Curiosities of Beeeeping |
| CROMPTON | The Hive |
| CROMPTON | The Hunting Wasp |
| CROWDER | The Flying Nation |
| CURRY, GRAYSON & HOSEY | Under the Microscope |
| D.A.R.G | Living with Varroasis Jacobsoni |
| DADANT | Dadant Systems of Beekeeping |
| DADANT | First Lessons in Beekeeping |
| DADANT | Beekeeping Questions and Answers |
| DADE | Laboratory Diagnosis of Honeybee Diseases |
| DADE | Anatomy & Dissection of the Honeybee |
| DALBY | Honey Recipes for Microwave Cookery |
| DALLAS | Elements of Entomology |
| DARWIN | Origin of the Species |
| DAVIES | The Honeybee inside out |
| DAVIS | Beekeeping in the Swarming Season |
| DEANS | Beekeeping Techniques |
| DEANS | Bees & Beekeeping |
| DEANS | Beekeeper’s Encyclopedia |
| DELAPLANE & MAYER | Crop Pollination by Bees |
| DENNIS | Background to Mead Making |
| DEWS & MILNER | Breeding Better Bees |
| DIEMER | Bees and Beekeeping |
| DINES | Honeybees from Close-Up |
| DODD | Bee Masters of the Past |
| DOERING | A Bee is Born |
| DOOLITTLE | Management of Out-Apiaries |
| DOOLITTLE | Scientific Queen Rearing |
| DUBLON | Practical Queen Rearing |
| DUFFIN (ET AL.) | Beeswax Crafts |
| DUGAT | The Skyscraper Hive |
| DUMMELOW | The Wax Chandlers of London |
| DUNNING | The Key of the Hive |
| ECKERT & SHAW | Beekeeping |
| EDWARDES | Lore of the Honeybee |
| EDWARDES | Beekeeping for All A Manual of Honey Craft |
| EDWARDES | Beemaster of Warrilow |
| EDWARDES | Apiary Hygiene |
| EDWARDES | Beekeeping for All A Manual of Honey Craft |
| EDWARDS | Social Wasps |
| EDWARDS & WRATTEN | Ecology of Insect-Plant Interactions |
| ELLIS | Sweetness and Light |
| ELTRINGHAM | Senses of Insects |
| ERICKSON (ET AL) | Scanning Electron Microscope Atlas of Honeybees |
| ERITH | White Clover |
| EVRARD | Mystery of the Hive |
| FABRE | Wonders of Instinct |
| FABRE | Mason Bees |
| FABRE | Bramble Bees |
| FATIGATI | BZZZ A Bee Keepers Primer |
| FELTWELL | Beekeeping |
| FIELD | Honey by the Ton |
| FLOWER | Beekeeping Up-to-Date |
| FORD | Mendelism and Evolution |
| FOSTER | Close-up of a Honeybee |
| FOSTER | Bee Boles & Bee Houses |
| FRANCON | Mind of the Bees |
| FRASER | History of Beekeeping in Britain |
| FRASER | Anton Janscha on the Swarming of Bees |
| FRASER | Beekeeping in Antiquity |
| FREE | Honeybees |
| FREE | Honeybee Biology |
| FREE | Bees and Mankind |
| FREE (ED) | Keeping Bees |
| FRIMSTON & SMITH | Beekeeping and the Law |
| FRISCH | A Biologist Remembers |
| FRISCH | The Dancing Bees |
| FRISCH | The Dances of the Honeybee |
| FRISCH | Bees: Their Vision; Chemical Senses & Language |
| FRISCH | The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees |
| FURNESS | Honey Wines and Beers |
| GALTON | Survey of 1000 years of Beekeeping in Russia |
| GAMBLE | Beekeeping [YFC] |
| GAMBLE | A Smallholder Broadcasts |
| GAYRE | Wassail in Mazers of Mead |
| GAYRE | Brewing Mead- Wassail in Mazers of Mead |
| GEARY | Profitable Beekeeping |
| GEARY | A Beekeeper’s Vade-Mecum |
| GEORGE | The Beekeepers Pupil |
| GIBB & HARMAN | Bee Hive to Beekeeper |
| GIBB & HARMAN | Bee Space to Bee Hive |
| GILMAN | Practical Bee Breeding |
| GOODMAN & FISHER | The Behaviour & Physiology of Bees |
| GOULD | The Honey Bee |
| GRAHAM | The Hive and the Honeybee |
| GREE | Little Tom finds out about Bees |
| GREEN | The Oilseed Rape Book |
| GREGG | Philosophy and Practice of Beekeeping |
| GROUT | The Hive and the Honeybee |
| GUNSTON | The Farmers & Farm Students Handbook |
| H & IOW BKA | Jubilee Report |
| Halifax BKA | Yorkshire Honey Cookbook |
| HAMILTON | The Art of Beekeeping |
| HANSEN | Honeybee Brood Diseases |
| HARLAND | Wheelbarrow Farm |
| HARMAN | Favorite American Honey Recipes |
| HARRISON | Book of the Honeybee |
| HARWOOD | British Bee Plants |
| HASLUCK | Beehives & Beekeepers’ Appliances |
| HAWKS | Bees Shown to the Children |
| HAYES | Nectar-producing Plants & their Pollen |
| HEAF | The Bee Friendly Beekeeper |
| HEATH | A Case of Hives |
| HEINRICH | In a Patch of Fireweed |
| HENREY | Flower Portraits |
| HERROD-HEMPSALL | Producing & Preparing Bee Produce |
| HERROD-HEMPSALL | The Beekeeper’s Guide |
| HERROD-HEMPSALL | Beekeeping Simplified |
| HERROD-HEMPSALL | Anatomy Physiology & Nat.History of Honeybees |
| HESSAYON | The Cereal Disease Expert |
| HODGES | Pollen Loads of the Honeybee |
| HOLM | Biology of Flowers |
| HOOPER | Commonsense Beekeeping |
| HOOPER & TAYLOR | Beekeeper’s Garden |
| HOOPER & TAYLOR | The Bee Friendly Garden |
| HOWES | Plants and Beekeeping |
| HOYT | World of Bees |
| HUBBELL | A Book of Bees |
| HUBBELL | A Country Year |
| HUTCHINSON | Advanced Bee Culture |
| HYDE | British Insects |
| I.B.R.A | Garden Plants Valuable to Bees |
| I.B.R.A. | Apicultural Reesearch on Varroa |
| I.T.P.L | Simple Method of Candle Manufacture |
| IMMS | Insect Natural History |
| IMMS | Social Behaviour in Insects |
| IPSEN | What Does a Bee See? |
| JACKSON | Beekeeping for Beginners |
| JAMES | Beekeeping for Beginners & Others |
| JAYCOX | Beekeeping Tips and Topic_x0001_ |
| JENYNS | Book about Bees |
| JEPSON | Biological Drawings [part 1] |
| JEPSON | Biological Drawings [part 2] |
| JOHANSEN & MAYER | Pollinator Protection |
| JOHANSSEN | Some Important Operations in Bee Management |
| JOHNSTON | A Nomad Amongst the Beees |
| JONES | Traditional Welsh Honey Recipes |
| KAPRAL | Little Lost Bee |
| KENNEDY-BELL | Joys of Beekeeping |
| KHALIFMAN | Bees |
| KILLION | Honey in the Comb |
| KIRK | Colour Guide to the Pollen Loads of the Honey Bee |
| KIRKWOOD | Plant & Flower Forms |
| KLEIJN & VERMEULEN | Beauty of the Wild Plant |
| LADYBIRD | Life of the Honeybee |
| LAIDLAW | Contemporary Queen Rearing |
| LANGSTROTH | On the Hive and the Honeybee |
| LATHAM | Bee Book |
| LATTER | Bees and Wasps |
| LAVINE | The Wonders of the Hive |
| LAWES | The Bee Book Book |
| LAWSON | Honeycraft |
| LEVANDOVSKA | World of the Bee |
| LEVETT | Ordering of Bees (1634) |
| LIEBIG | Chemistry in its Application to Apiculture |
| LIGHTNING | Charles Nash Abbott |
| LINDAUER | Communication among Social Bees |
| LINSSEN & NEWMAN | Common British Insects and Spiders (Observer’s Book) |
| LONGMEAD | Bees, Hives and Honey |
| LOVELL | The Flower and the Bee |
| LUND | A Man and his Bees |
| M.A.F.F | Codes of Practice for Spraying |
| M.A.F.F | Diseases of Bees |
| MACDONALD EDUC. | Bees |
| MACE | Adventures among the Bees |
| MACE | Bees Flowers and Fruit |
| MACE | Beekeeping Annual |
| MACE | Bee Farming in Britain |
| MACE | A Book about the Bee |
| MACE | Bee Matters and Bee Masters |
| MACE | Beekeeping Associations (Critical Survey) |
| MACE | Some Other Bees |
| MACE | Modern Beeekeeping |
| MACE | The Beekeeper’s Handbook |
| MACE | Practical Beekeeping |
| MACE | Beeswax & Bee Gardens (2 leaflets inside H430) |
| MACE | The Complete Handbook of Bee Keeping |
| MACFIE | Practical Beekeeping and Honey Production |
| MACGREGOR | Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants |
| MACNICOL | The Young Beekeeper |
| MAETERLINCK | Life of the Bee |
| MAETERLINCK | Childrens’ Life of the Bee |
| MAETERLINCK | Life of the Ant |
| MAF (NZ) | Control of Varroa Guide for NZ Beekeepers |
| MANLEY | Honey Production in the British Isles |
| MANLEY | Beekeeping in Britain |
| MANLEY | Honey Farming |
| MANLEY | Honey Production in the British Isles |
| MANLEY | Beekeeping in Britain |
| MANLEY | Honey Production in the British Isles |
| MANLEY | Honey Farming |
| MATHESON | Living with Varroa |
| MATHESON | Forage for Bees in an Agricultral Landscape |
| MAYNE | A Swarm in May |
| MEAD | Honey Cookery |
| MELLOR | Honey |
| MESQUIDA | Elements of Genetics..especially Bees |
| METCALF | Bee Community |
| MEYER | Beekeeper’s Handbook |
| MEYER | Basic Beekeeping |
| MILLER | Fifty Years among the Bees |
| MITCHELL | Bees of the Eastern United States (Vol 2) |
| MITCHENER | Social Behaviour of the Bees |
| MOBUS & CONNOR | Varroa Handbook |
| MOBUS & DE BRUYN | The New Varroa Handbook |
| MOLLAN | Royal Dublin Society on Bee Husbandry Reprinted Papers |
| MORE | Ideas for Interesting Gardens |
| MORE | The Bee Book |
| MORE | Discovering Beekeeping |
| MORLEY | Evolution of an Insect Society |
| MORSE | Comb Honey Production |
| MORSE | Complete Guide to Beekeeping |
| MORSE | Rearing Queen Honeybees |
| MORSE | A Year in the Bee-Yard |
| MORSE | Honeybee Pests Predators & Diseases |
| MORSE & HOOPER | Illustrated Encyclopedia of Beekeeping |
| MOUNTAIN | Trees & Shrubs valuable to Bees |
| MOYLE | Asthma and Hayfever |
| MUNN & JONES | Varroa – Fight the Mite |
| MUNRO | Honey |
| NEW SOUTH WALES DEPT MIN AGRIC | Bees and Honey |
| NICHOLS & WALKER | Producing Honey in Australia |
| NICOL | The New Candle Book |
| NIXON | World of Bees |
| NORDEN & HANSEN | The Bee |
| NORRIS | About Honey |
| NOVAK | Insect Hormones |
| ONSTOTT | Beekeeping as a Hobby |
| ONTARIO D.AG | Beekeeping in Ontario |
| OREL & ROZMER | Mendel as a Beekeeper |
| OWSIANKA | The Legend of the Hive |
| PAIN | Lesser Worlds |
| PAVORD | Bees and Beekeeping |
| PEARSON | Bee Stings |
| PELLETT | Living from Bees |
| PELLETT | Practical Queen Rearing |
| PERCIVAL | Floral Biology |
| PHILLIPS | Beekeeping |
| POWELL | World of a Beehive |
| PRICE | Price on Beekeeping |
| PROCTOR & YEO | Pollination of Flowers |
| PRYCE-JONES | Bumblebees |
| PUGH | History of Meon Valley Beekeepers |
| RANSOME | The Sacred Bee |
| RATCLIFFE | Beekeepers’ Folly |
| REMINGTON | Insects of the World |
| RENDL | The Way of the Bee |
| RENNIE | Acarine Disease in Hive Bees |
| RENNIE & HARVEY | Bee Disease Investigation |
| RENNIE | Acarine Disease Explained |
| RIBBANDS | Behaviour & Social Life of the Honeybee |
| RICHES | Beekeeping |
| RICHES | Medical Aspects of Beekeeping |
| RIMMER | History of Manx Beekeeping |
| ROOD | Ants and Bees |
| ROOT | ABC & XYZ of Beek Culture |
| ROOT | ABC & XYZ of Bee Culture (1962) |
| ROOT | Honey Cook Book |
| ROSS | Textbook of Entomology |
| ROTH | Praktische bienenzucht |
| ROTHAMSTED PAPERS | Cause and Control of Swarming |
| ROUNCE | Honey from Source to Sale & Show Bench |
| ROWE | Rose Hive Method |
| ROWLAND-ENTWISTLE | Habits and Habitats of Insects |
| RUSSELL | Spray Liaison |
| SAJO | Unsere honigbienen |
| SAMMATARO & AVITALILE | The Beekeepers Handbook |
| SAUNDERS | Wild Bees Wasps and Ants |
| SAWYER | Pollen Identification for Beekeepers |
| SAWYER | Honey Identification |
| SCHOFIELD | Teach Yourself Beekeeping |
| SCOTT | Backyard Beekeeping |
| SCOTTISH BKA | Introduction to Bees & Beekeeping |
| SECHRIST | Honey Getting |
| SECHRIST | Amateur Beekeeping |
| SEELEY | Honeybee Democracy |
| SHIDA | Bee Keeping – A Thornhill Guide |
| SHIPLEY | Studies in Insect Life |
| SHORT | Introduction to Applied Entomology |
| SHOWLER | Observation Hive |
| SHULMAN | Herb & Honey Cookery |
| SIMMINS | A Modern Bee Farm |
| SINCLAIR | Life of the Honey-bee (Ladybird series) |
| SLADEN | Queen Rearing in England |
| SLADEN | The Humble Bee |
| SMART | Insects. Instructions for Collectors |
| SMITH | Beekeeping in the Tropics |
| SMITH | Beekeeping |
| SMITH | The Hive (Australian Govt) |
| SMITH | Queen Rearing Simplified |
| SMITH | Better Queens |
| SMITH | Beekeeping in the Tropics |
| SMITH | William Charles Cotton MA 1813-1879 |
| SNELGROVE | Swarming. Control and Prevention. |
| SNODGRASS | Anatomy & Physiology of the Honeybee |
| SNODGRASS | Anatomy of the Honeybee |
| SPOCZYNCKA | World of the Wasp |
| STANLEY | Pollen |
| STANTON | Wild Flowers (Ladybird Series) |
| STEP | British Insect Life |
| STEPHENS-POTTER | Beekeeper’s Manual |
| STRATTON-PORTER | Keeper of the Bees |
| STUART | Beekeeping Practice |
| STUART | City of the Bees |
| STURGES | Practical Beekeeping |
| TAYLOR | Bees for Beginners |
| TAYLOR | Insect Life in Britain |
| TAYLOR | Flowers: their origin shape perfume & colour |
| TAYLOR | The New Comb Honey Book |
| TAYLOR | The Joys of Beekeeping |
| TAYLOR | Bee Appliances and How to use them |
| TEALE | Golden Throng |
| TINBERGEN | Animal Behaviour |
| TINSLEY | Beekeeping up-to-date |
| TINSLEY | That Year at Cornborough |
| TOMPKINS & GRIFFITH | Practical Beekeeping |
| URQUHART | Keeping Honeybees |
| VERNON | Hogs at the Honeypot |
| VERNON | IBRA Collection of Historical Beekeeping items |
| VERNON | Hogs at the Honeypot |
| VERNON | Teach Yourself Beekeeping (2nd edn) |
| VINCENT | Adventures at Honey Bee Hive |
| VIRGIL | Eclogues – Georgics: Aenid I-VI |
| WADEY | Introducing beekeeping |
| WADEY | Bee Craftsman |
| WADEY | Behaviour of Bees and Beekeepers |
| WAINE | Background to Beekeeping |
| WATTS | Honeybee |
| WEBB | Beekeeping for Profit and Pleasure |
| WEBSTER | Book of Beekeeping |
| WEDMORE | Manual of Beekeeping |
| WEDMORE | Ventilation of Beehives |
| WEDMORE | Successful Beekeeping |
| WENNER | Bee Language Controversy |
| WHITE | Normal Bacterial Flora of the Bee |
| WHITE | Honey in the Kitchen |
| WHITE | More Honey in the Kitchen |
| WHITE | Pollen. Collection & Preparation for microscope |
| WHITE | Super Formulas – Arts & Crafts |
| WHITEHEAD | Bees to the Heather |
| WHITEHEAD | Honeybees and their Management? |
| WIGGLESWORTH | Insect Physiology |
| WILDMAN | Treatise on the Management of Bees 1770 |
| WILLIAMS | Story of the Hive |
| WILLIAMS & WILSON | Towards Regulated Cropping |
| WILSON | The Hive – Story of the Honey Bee and Us |
| WINSTON | The Biology of the Honey Bee |
| WINTER | Beekeeping in New Zealand |
| WISE | Home-made Country Wines;Beer;Mead & Metheglin |
| WORKMAN | Honey Recipes |
| WYATT | Microscopes |
| YATES | Beekeeping Study Notes – Basic, SBKA Basic & FIBKA Prelim. |
| YATES | Beekeeping Study Notes modules 1 2 3 & 4 |
| YATES | Beekeeping Study Notes Module 9 |
| YATES | Beekeeping Study Notes – Practical |
| YEO | Solitary Wasps |
| Bees at School – a diary from a school garden | |