About the Book

Hive Tour: The Insider’s Guide to Honey Bees is your guide book to the fascinating lives of honey bees. It 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.

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Phil Frank in a beekeeping suit surrounded by bees
Phil Frank
Frank Linton standing near a lake holding the brim of his baseball cap
Frank Linton

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Title: Hive Tour: The Insider’s Guide to Honey Bees
Authors: Phil Frank and Frank Linton
Publication date: May 15, 2022
Publisher: Honey Tongue Press
ISBN-13: ‎979-8828369652

Retail price: $24.99
Available In: Paperback
Genre: Life Sciences, Entomology

From science journalist and TV producer, writer, and director of non-fiction films Phil Frank and EAS-certified master beekeeper and author of The Observation Hive Handbook Frank Linton comes your new guide book to the fascinating lives of honey bees.

Hive Tour will help you find bee 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. This vivid imagery is clearly annotated, guiding you to the most interesting sights.

Praise:

[Hive Tour] is excellently illustrated with photos by the two authors and even without the copy, would be a great book to explore.
Finding hive parts shows entrances, wax cells and comb, frames and bee space, feeders and more. And each of these has a fun fact to explore too…
There is no doubt that taking this book to some place with an observation hive would be a great learning experience, especially if you are accompanied by someone who is eager to learn more.

Bee Culture Magazine

This beautifully photographed and clearly set out book is the perfect guide to investigating a hive. I shall be recommending this to the Science teachers in the school I work in. Creating this degree of familiarity with bees can only help with the critical work of saving them as a species.”

Adriane Moore

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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 and the author of The Observation Hive Handbook. 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 is developing BeeXML, an international standard for the exchange of bee and beekeeping data.

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. His fascination with honey bees came while producing a National Geographic show.
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. Phil is an EAS Certified Master Beekeeper, and a Cornell University Certified Master Beekeeper.