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Central Texas is widely known for its spectacular wildflowers. Anyone who's looked closely at very many flowers has had the unexpected pleasure of finding a bee tumbling about in the center. Honey bees pollinate many flowering plants, and provide us with honey, nature's own sweetener. In celebration of this helpful insect, we present these pages where you can explore the world of bees and beekeeping.

Spring 2003, our Ninth ANNUAL
Spring Sting Bee Fling

An annual workshop for beginning beekeepers.

Capital Area Beekeepers: About the Capital Area Beekeepers, the Austin Texas beekeeping group.
Beekeeping: Information about keeping bees and why bees are important.
Bee Biology: The scientific details. Look under Life Cycle to find out about SWARMS. Learn bee anatomy, their life cycle and why a colony works as a social unit. Also learn about parasitic mites that are destroying bees across the country. You can also get the real story about "killer bees".
Education: Tools for learning. Find some bee related activities, reading lists for adults and children or visit our fun page with puzzles and jokes. Go here for a word search game and the bee maze.
Research: What's going on at universities, and the latest in scientific information.
Our page on HOT-TOPICS is here with the latest information about bees in Central Texas and other items of interest!
The Local Bee Scene: The Central Texas Flowering Report among other things.

For questions or comments contact: Carol K. Malcolm

Last modified 14 January 2003

An annual workshop for beginning beekeepers.

About the Capital Area Beekeepers, the Austin Texas beekeeping group.

Information about keeping bees and why bees are important.

The scientific details. Look under Life Cycle to find out about SWARMS. Learn bee anatomy, their life cycle and why a colony works as a social unit. Also learn about parasitic mites that are destroying bees across the country. You can also get the real story about "killer bees".

Tools for learning. Find some bee related activities, reading lists for adults and children or visit our fun page with puzzles and jokes. Go here for a word search game and the bee maze.

What's going on at universities, and the latest in scientific information. Our page on HOT-TOPICS is here with the latest information about bees in Central Texas and other items of interest!

The Central Texas Flowering Report among other things.

What's going on at universities, and the latest in scientific information.
Our page on HOT-TOPICS is here with the latest information about bees in Central Texas and other items of interest!