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Beekeeping for Dummies
Howland Blackiston
For Dummies
For Dummies
Believe it or not, bees are one of the oldest species of domesticated animals. Archeologists have found evidence of beekeeping, or apiculture, in the Middle East dating back more than five thousand years. If you’ve ever tasted good clover...
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Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Kaufman Field Guides)
Kenn Kaufman, Eric R. Eaton
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify. In the new Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, readers will find a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of insects and their fascinating life histories....
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A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
Michael Schacker
The Lyons Press
The Lyons Press
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the...
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The Beekeeper's Handbook, Third Edition
Alphonse Avitabile, Diana Sammataro
Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press
Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have revised and expanded their clear and comprehensive guide to cover changes in beekeeping. They discuss the crisis created by the parasitic bee mites. In less than a decade, for example, Varroa mites...
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Hive Management: A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers
Richard E. Bonney
Storey Publishing, LLC
Storey Publishing, LLC
The beekeeper's year begins with a late winter hive inspection and ends with "putting the bees to bed" in the autumn. Richard Bonney believes that each beekeeping activity should be performed with an eye toward the overall well-being of the colony,...
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Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
Carl Zimmer
Free Press
Free Press
Many books provoke a visceral reaction, but few really make you itch . Science writer Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex does just that, provoking a deliciously creepy sense of paranoia in the reader as it explores a long-misunderstood realm of...
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Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual
L. L. Langstroth
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
The first descriptive treatise of modern bee management. In a reader-friendly, enthusiastic style, Langstroth addresses every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and worker;...
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