Wired Magazine has a nice article in their February 2011 issue on Marla Spivak, and the work she is doing to create a better bee. Click here to read it.

Thanks to the Stateline Beekeepers Association, The Northern Beekeepers Association, Steve & Sue Kivikko, Rich Ramsey, and Jim Belli for the illinois bees.com website where spray applicators can check for bees and beekeepers can register there hives for protection during field sprays. Here is the link: www.illinoisbees.com

Link to an article by Sue Cobey comparing instumentally inseminated & open mated queens: http://www.honeybee.breeding.com/HBIS/pdf/IIvsNM.pdfhttp://www.honeybee.breeding.com/HBIS/pdf/IIvsNM.pdf