Who is your favorite writer about beekeeping

[BeeTeach]

I always look forward to reading Jim Tew's articles in Bee Culture.

[chillard willard]

Dr H. Laidlaw on his Contemporary Queen rearing.

[StevenG]

I already mentioned Richard Taylor...
going back thru old issues of Gleanings (Now simply Bee Culture) I was reminded of Charles Koover.
Today I really appreciate and enjoy Mike Bush and Walt Wright.

[honeylove]

Kirk Webster!

[Oldbee]

When I was a young lad and started getting interested in nature, one of my favorite nature writers was John Burroughs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burroughs , of the late 1880's, [1837-1921]. I don't know of naturalists today who have devoted some of their writings to the honey bee [or nature in general] in the style that he did. I suppose Richard Taylor comes closests.

"Indeed, a colony of bees, with their neatness and love of order, their division of labor, their public-spiritedness, their thrift, their complex economies, and their inordinate love of gain, seems as far removed from a condition of rude nature as does a walled city or a cathedral town." --J.B.

"Yet the fact remains that the honey-bee is essentially a wild creature, and never has been and cannot be thoroughly domesticated. Its proper home is the woods, and thither every new swarm counts on going; and thither many do go in spite of the care and watchfulness of the bee-keeper. --J.B.

From: "An Idyl of The Honey-Bee". http://www.bartleby.com/109/22.html

You can find other writings: Google John Burroughs and honey bees/the honey bee,.. etc. Most of his writings are out of print of course, but you can find them in the Gutenberg Project and others.

But a good question power napper, I will have to think of that when reading more of the,.. "how to books".