A Beekeeper’s Life by Ed Colby Hives was Director of the International

was Director of the International Bee Research Association from 1949 until her retirement in 1983

Authored by an expert team of more than 30 scientists

and Honey By The Ton by Oliver Field (1983)

the under-estimated risk to human health

The present book is an original study on beekeeping which

A Beekeeper’s Life by Ed Colby Hives was Director of the InternationalA collection of 60 essays written by Ed Colby taken from Bee Culture magazine written over the years. With a blend of humor and pathos, Colby shares not only his remarkable adventures with God's favorite insect but also reflects on friendship, love, death and the fickle winds of fate. His longtime editor at Bee Culture, Kim Flottum, has this to say of the Colby's Bee Culture column, this book and the author:"He's in the top three of who gets read