• Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, 415-554-9600
  
• San Franicsco Zoo, (in the Children's Insect Zoo), 415-753-7080

Beekeeping in Bay Area Cities

• Bay Area Beekeeper's First Year and Yearly Overview Checklist
• Managing Bees In The City, including Critical Swarm Control

Recommended Bay Area Bee Organizations

• Alameda County Beekeepers
  meets second Tuesday of each month, 7:30 PM, at the Rotary Nature Center, at Lake Merritt, 552 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA 94610
• Contra Costa County Beekeepers Association
  meets second Thursday of each Month, 7:30pm, Heather Farms Garden Center, 1540 Marchbanks, Walnut Creek
  
• Marin County Beekeepers Association,
  meets first Thursday of each month, 7:30 PM, American Legion Log Cabin, 20 Veterans Place, San Anselmo, CA 94960
  
• San Francisco Beekeepers Association,
  meets second Wednesday of each month, 7:30pm, Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114
  
• The Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County
  meets first Thursday of each month, 7:30 PM, at 751 Alameda De Las Pulgas, Belmont CA
• Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild
  meets first Monday of each month, 7:00 PM (times vary), at the San Jose Library, 1243 San Tomas Aquino Road, San Jose CA 95117
• Sonoma County Beekeeper's
  meets second Monday of each months, 7:00pm, at Wine Country Honey, 2971 Guerneville RD, Santa Rosa, CA

Internet Information Resources

• Starting Beekeeping
  
• Flower Pollination Resource Guide
  
• The Bee Waggle Dance
  
• Beekeeping FAQ - informational and comprehensive
  
• Other Assorted Beekeeping FAQ links
  
• Bee Colony Management
  
• First Bees In California
  
• History of American Beekeeping
  
• More Internet Pointers
  
• Beekeeping Listserv Archive
  
• Health Aspects of Honey
• Observation Hives
  
• Cell-Plug Queen Rearing
  
• California Africanized Honey Bee Status

  Suggested by Cam Stevens:
  

• All About Bees

• The BEE-L "Discussion of Bee Biology" is an active e-mail discussion for beekeepers. To subscribe to the Bee-L send an e-mail  message to LISTSERV@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU with only four words: "SUBSCRIBE BEE-L First_name Last_name" in the body, without the quotes.  LISTSERV will then e-mail back a confirmation that you must reply to, before it adds you to the list. Your confirmation will contain instructions on how to use, or leave the list. All commands are sent to the LISTSERV addresses above. This is a very informative list and allows for a speedy education on pertinent and timely issues required to manage bees successfully.

• Honey Bee Blues, BBC documentary, 52 mins. (Watch this right now!)
• Randy Oliver - Scientific Beekeeping.com
• Randy Oliver's "Rules for Successful Bee Management"
• Kirk Webster
• The Fat Bee Man
• Management of Bees by the Rotation System
• Mike Palmer Talk Video: The Sustainable Apiary Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
• Tooting and Piping of Queens

• American Bee Journal
  
• Bee Culture

• Beekind, (great local Northbay/Bay Area resource)
  921 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol, CA 95472, 707-824-2905, Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 10am-4pm
  
• Better Bee, Inc., (good catalog)
  8 Meader Road, Greenwich, New York 12834, 800-632-3379 Order, 518-692-9669 Fax and Info
  
• Biofuel Oasis, (local: equipment, supplies and classes), Monday-Saturday: 11am-7pm, Closed Sunday
  1441 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702, On the corner of Ashby & Sacramento, 510-665-5509
  
• Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, (good catalog)
  610 Bethany Church Road, Moravian Falls, NC 28654, 800-233-7929
  
• Dadant
  P.O. Box 2837, 2765 S. Golden State Blvd., Fresno, CA 93745, 877-432-3268 orders, 209-495-0230 inquiries
  
• Mann Lake, Ltd., (good catalog)
  501 S. 1st Street, Hackensack, MN 56452-2001, 800-233-6663
  
• Maxant Industries, Inc., (good equipment for commercial beekeepers)
  P.O. Box 454, Ayer, MA 01432, 978-772-0576
  
• Walter T. Kelley Co., Inc., (lower prices, old school essential and unusual items, hard to find specialty items like Wax Melter, good catalog.)
  3107 Elizabethtown Road, P.O. Box 240, Clarkson, KY 42726-0240, 502-242-2012
  
• Western Bee Supplies, Inc., (Citybees' preferred wooden ware, good catalog.)
  (Cheaper for large orders even with palette delivery by truck from Montana.)
  P.O. Box 190, Polson, MT 59860, 800-548-8440

• Randy Oliver Apiaries, 530-272-4450, 14744 Meadow Drive, Nevada City, CA, email: "randy@randyoliver.com".
  - nuc hives available for pickup. Bring your hive body and five frames for exchange. Ten frame medium nuc hives also available.
• Honeybee Genetics, Vacaville, CA 95696, 707-449-0440
  - Russian "Yugo" Carniolan (from Kirk Webster Mother Queens), Taber Hybrid Italians. They will ship priority USPS with a minimum number of queens ordered, and they usually arrive to the Bay Area the next day. If you drive, take Hwy 80 toward Sacramento from the Bay Area. Take exit #59/Meridian Rd/Weber Rd onto Weber Rd - go 0.6 mi, Turn Right on Byrnes Rd - go 1.4 mi, just after old plant nursery, row of Eucalyptus and see driveway, bear right. Arrive at 6718 Byrnes Rd, Vacaville, CA 95687. Office is in the trailer.
  
• Pat Heitkam - Heitkams Honey Bees, 4700 1st Avenue, Orland, California 95963, 530-865-9562
  - Carniolan and Italian bees. (We like Heitkam queens.)
  
• C F Koehnen & Sons, 3131 California 45, Glenn, CA 95943, 530-934-5216
  - Cardovan Italians and Carniolan bees. (Economical cash price, picked up, for large orders especially.)
  
• Strachan Apiaries, Inc., 2522 Tierra Buena Road, Yuba City, CA 95993, 530-674-3881,
  - new world carniolan bees (great queens shipped by mail) - [available end of April]
  
  
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