“HIVE TOUR” will help you find behaviors, anatomy, paternity, specialty wax combs, uninvited invaders, and more.
STUNNING PHOTOS fill each page to show you exactly what is in a hive and where to find it.
Like a travel guide book, “HIVE TOUR” is organized to help you zero in on your areas of interest.
Vivid imagery is clearly annotated, guiding you to the most interesting sights.
About the Authors
Frank Linton and Phil Frank collectively have 30 years of beekeeping experience. They each built and maintain glass observation hives where people can see what busy bees do. Some museums and nature centers have similar exhibits, but what was missing was a Hive Tour book to help people FIND their way in a bee’s world. This book was created to help those visitors, and for everyone interested in honey bees.
Phil Frank
Phil Frank is a science journalist and TV producer, writer, and director of non-fiction films. His programs have been seen on CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, A&E, Travel Channel, Headline News, History Channel, TLC, NYTimes website, Washington Post website, and international channels. While producing a National Geographic program about mass animal die-offs, Phil became fascinated by honey bees. In 2014, he started his first hive. Now he has 15 hives on his deck, and one glass walled hive in his kitchen (link to video) where he studies busy bees year round.
Phil developed and runs websites for the Maryland State Beekeepers Association and Maryland’s Montgomery County Beekeepers Association. He designs beekeeping curricula and teaches honey bee biology for beekeepers.
Frank Linton
Frank Linton started keeping bees in glass observation hives in 2005, and now keeps a few colonies of honey bees near Washington DC. He is an EAS-certified master beekeeper. He runs three honey bee-related websites and hosts the International Colony Monitoring Technology conferences. He writes articles for Bee Culture and the American Bee Journal, and speaks at local, regional, and international bee conferences. He is an Affiliate Faculty member at Appalachian State University where he works on developing BeeXML, an international standard for the exchange of honey bee and beekeeping data. Frank is the author of The Observation Hive Handbook.
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Here is a fun video of the observation hive in Phil Frank’s kitchen.