Links and Resources

Important CDBA Documentation

CDBA Constitution By-Laws: CDBA Constitution and Bylaws_032617 in PDF

Illinois Department of Agriculture Bees and Apiaries Program

Main Site
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/agr/Insects/Bees/Pages/default.aspx

Beekeeper Registration Form
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/agr/Insects/Bees/Documents/beekeep.pdf

Illinois Bees & Apiary Act http://tinyurl.com/Illapiariesact

Illinois Bees and Apiary Rules
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/agr/Insects/Bees/Documents/beerules.pdf

Illinois Department of Agriculture Bee Inspectors
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/agr/Insects/Bees/Pages/IDA-Apiary-Inspectors.aspx

IDA Inspectors Regions
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/agr/Insects/Bees/Pages/Map-of-Inspectors-Regions.aspx

Illinois State Beekeeper’s Association http://www.ilsba.com

Determining the Latitude and Longitude of your hive based on an address
(Important when registering your apiary location)
https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocode

http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php

Other State Beekeeping Associations and Clubs:

Stateline Beekeepers Association
https://www.facebook.com/statelinebee

Kankakee River Valley Beekeepers Association http://krvba.blogspot.com/

Northern Illionois Beekeepers Association https://nibainfo.org/home/

Central Eastern Illinois Beekeepers Association
https://www.facebook.com/Central-Eastern-Illinois-Beekeeping-Association-416761008418015/

Northwest Indiana Beekeepers Association
https://www.nwibeekeepers.org/

Will County Beekeeping Association http://willbees.org/

Lake County (IL) Beekeeping Association www.lakecountybeekeepers.org

National Organizations

American Beekeeping Federation
https://www.abfnet.org/default.aspx

National Honey Board www.honey.com

Heartland Apiculture Society
http://www.heartlandbees.org/

Beekeeping Publications

American Bee Journal
https://americanbeejournal.com/

Bee Culture
https://www.beeculture.com/

Interesting Links

Cornell University E.F. Phillips beekeeping Collection
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/bees

How to identify pollen sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pollen_sources

Wikipedia on Beekeeping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Beekeeping

University of Illinois Pollinatarium
https://pollinatarium.illinois.edu/

Langstroths Hive & The Honey Bee as Free Audio Book
http://librivox.org/langstroth-on-the-hive-and-the-honey-bee-by-l-l-langstroth/

Basic Beekeeping – David Burns excellent Blog on Basic Beekeeping Lessons
http://basicbeekeeping.blogspot.com/