BEE-L seems to be emerging from it's winter slumber. Look at all this traffic! Spring must be just around the corner :-) I like Dick Bonney's books. They are informative and easy to read. They are aimed at folks who really want to keep bees, and there is good detail about how to actually keep bees, as compared to the report from Adrian Wenner that the Sue Hubbel books contain "essentially no information about how to keep bees." In fact, I'll be using "Beekeeping: A Practical Guide" as the text for a class for beginning beekeepers that I am organizing this spring. Rick Hough, A beekeeper from Hamilton, MA (NE of Boston) [log in to unmask]