Download or read book My Life as a Honey Bee written by Joyce A. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her interest in honey bees was awakened while volunteering at the Museum of Natural Science. After countless hours of researching and observing honey bee behavior she became mesmerized by their behaviors. After taking copious notes, she realized she had written a book! Finally, she was able to bring her long-time passion for writing (she started writing short stories in the third grade) into fruition.
Download or read book My Life As a Honey Bee written by Joyce Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female honey bee speaks to us about life in the honeycomb. It is highly readable and can be enjoyed by young adult and adult readers. It is based on scientific fact and is an exhaustive fount of information. In no more than 83 pages the author covers all aspects of what it's like to be a female honey bee: when and from whom bees originated, their social hierarchy, how they gather pollen and make honey, their diseases, etc. The book even touches on research done by the United States government at their laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as well as universities to determine if female honey bees can be used in place of "sniffer" dogs. Although it is based on scientific facts and is portrayed with a unique viewpoint, it generates interest in honey bees and appreciation for their value in nature and economic systems. Despite its brevity, the book is still an in-depth and informative resource with a light-hearted humorous twist. The story is told by a volunteer with the Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX) who began studying honey bees at the Museum and became enchanted with them. After taking copious notes, the author realized she had written a book!
Download or read book The Lives of Bees written by Thomas D. Seeley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to beekeeping--Darwinian Beekeeping--which enables honey bees to use the toolkit of survival skills their species has acquired over the past thirty million years, and to evolve solutions to the new challenges they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits of honey bees.
Download or read book The Honey Bus written by Meredith May and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature. The bees became a guiding force in May’s life, teaching her about family and community, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.
Download or read book The Life Cycle of a Honeybee written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These busy insects have intrigued people of all ages for thousands of years. The Life Cycle of a Honeybee describes each stage of a honeybee's life cycle from egg to adult. Fascinating full-color photographs and easy-to-understand text will delight young readers.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Bees written by Moira Butterfield and published by Words & Pictures. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to tiny tales from Buzzwing the hardworking honeybee. Combining nonfiction with a splash of fantasy, The Secret Life of Bees is a book to get lost in, time and again.
Download or read book Flight of the Honey Bee written by Raymond Huber and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most informative picture books about honey bees, this is surely among the most beautiful as well.” —Booklist (starred review) A tiny honey bee emerges from the hive for the first time. Using sunlight, landmarks, and scents to remember the path, she goes in search of pollen and nectar to share with the thousands of other bees in her hive. She uses her powerful sense of smell to locate the flowers that sustain her, avoids birds that might eat her, and returns home to share her finds with her many sisters. Nature lovers and scientists-to-be are invited to explore the fascinating life of a honey bee. Back matter includes information about protecting bees and an index.
Download or read book Honeybee Democracy written by Thomas D. Seeley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process Honeybees make decisions collectively—and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together—as a swirling cloud of bees—to their new home. Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority should be counted on for a dependable resolution. An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.
Download or read book I Am a Bee written by James McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the weather turns warm during spring and summer, that's when the fuzzy bees come out of hiding. Learn about the amazing life of a honey bee and discover just how important these tiny creatures are to the many varieties of food people count on.
Download or read book The Life of the Honey Bee written by ,Adrianna and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Life of the Honey Bee, two young girls, Em and Noel, cope with the destructive, fatal choices made by their mother during her life after her death. Their mother, Marian, suffered great tragedies in her lifetime, causing her to lose compassion for everyone including her own daughters. Marian, born in the south and migrated north with her mother as an elementary-aged child, recovered from the brinks of insanity, only to fall into ghastly grips of addiction and self-destruction. During happier times in her life, Marian conceived two children in very different manners. Marian tried to be a good mother, until the weight of her past caught up with her. Not in the mental state to be a productive parent, Marian left much of the child rearing to her mother, Cecilia. Cecilia was a devout Christian, an excellent mother, and a dutiful wife to the day of her husband's death. After the death of her husband, Cecilia dedicated her life to raising her children successfully. Marian, the baby of the family, was the only of Cecilia's children who failed to live a long joyous, happy Christian life. Em suffered, and Noel witnessed much pain during the short time they were in their mother's care. Both girls lost their innocence before age ten. They had seen too much to have the socio-emotional intellect of girls their ages. The wisdom both girls gained was fuel. It fueled their very different paths to very different ends. While Em remained in the cycle of the generational curses that were the root causes of her mother's death, Noel embarked on a spiritual journey that helped her cope and survive with the loss and her pain of her life. Some people may consider Noel's life and survival to be a miracle. Noel managed to stay strong and focused. Despite the bad she witnessed, she always managed to do right and good to everyone in every situation.
Download or read book A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings written by Helen Jukes and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive—a year of living dangerously—watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world. "As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings as bees in a hive. I loved it."--Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as the author is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected in her life. Uneasy about her future and struggling to settle into her new house in Oxford with its own small garden, she is brought back to a time of accompanying a friend in London—a beekeeper—on his hive visits. And as a gesture of good fortune for her new life, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good luck, and Helen Jules embarks on a rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper. Jukes writes about what it means to “keep” wild creatures; on how to live alongside beings whose laws and logic are so different from our own . . . She delves into the history of beekeeping and writes about discovering the ancient, haunting, sometimes disturbing relationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is a book of observation, of the irrepressible wildness of these fascinating creatures, of the ways they seem to evade our categories each time we attempt to define them. Are they wild or domestic? Individual or collective? Is honey an animal product or is it plant-based? As the author’s colony grows, the questions that have, at first compelled her interest to fade away, and the inbetweenness, the unsettledness of honeybees call for a different kind of questioning, of consideration. A subtle yet urgent mediation on uncertainty and hope, on solitude and friendship, on feelings of restlessness and on home; on how we might better know ourselves. A book that shows us how to be alert to the large and small creatures that flit between and among us and that urge us to learn from this vital force so necessary to be continuation of life on planet Earth.
Download or read book Life Cycle of a Honey Bee written by Grace Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the amazing life cycles of the animals and insects that live in our world. With easy to read text and informative diagrams, this series is a perfect introduction for young readers.
Download or read book The Lives of Bees written by Thomas D Seeley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s captivating story of what scientists are learning about the behavior, social life, and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the beekeeper’s hive—and how wild honey bees may hold the key to reversing the alarming die-off of the planet’s managed honey bee populations. Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to beekeeping—Darwinian Beekeeping—which enables honey bees to use the toolkit of survival skills their species has acquired over the past thirty million years, and to evolve solutions to the new challenges they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits of honey bees. Engagingly written and deeply personal, The Lives of Bees reveals how we can become better custodians of honey bees and make use of their resources in ways that enrich their lives as well as our own.
Download or read book My Faith My Life written by Jenifer Gamber and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you listen closely enough to teenagers, you’ll hear their deep yearning to connect with God, and a powerful instinct to belong. And you’ll find out right away the one thing they really hate—being preached to. Here in My Faith, My Life, teenagers learn all about the Christian faith they’ve been baptized into – and the Episcopal Church that offers them a spiritual home. With lively writing that’s always informative and never condescending, the book gives them all the basics they need to know to understand their faith – and claim it as their own. Closely linked to the Book of Common Prayer, My Faith, My Life covers everything from scripture, church history, and sacraments, to the meaning of prayer and ministry in the lives of real teens today. This is the essential handbook for teens in the Episcopal Church – an excellent resource for confirmation classes, youth study groups, and high school Christian education programs. Also available: A complete guide for Christian educators who are using My Faith, My Life as a confirmation resource for teenagers in the parish. It will contain detailed lesson plans, background information, suggestions, newsletter articles, and a wide variety of other materials to help teachers make the best use of My Faith, My Life. This leader guide will be a downloadable PDF for $5.95 from the Church Publishing website
Download or read book Five Bizzy Honey Bees The Fun and Factual Life of the Honey Bee written by Lance Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey bees are among the most remarkable creatures on earth! They are regularly seen scouring the blossoms of flowers in the spring and summer months. And yet, ask most adults how honey bees produce honey and the answers will be as varied as the flowers. The fact is, each honey bee lives in a very structured and organized home, called a colony. There is nothing random about a beehive. Every bee has a specific assignment to further the work of the hive to produce the honey we all love. This story, with its award winning illustrations by internationally recognized Italian illustrator Yuribelle, takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the hive and explores the highly organized life of a honey bee. Readers from 1 to 100 will be amazed at the fun, and yet factual, illustrations. Additionally, each page provides simple yet entertaining and engaging insight into the life of the honey bee. Adult readers will find additional factual information on each page to provide further insight. Without a doubt, this will be one of the most fascinating, informative and enjoyable books you will ever own. You will not be disappointed!
Download or read book My Life and Journey from Homelessness and beyond written by James E. Wise and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is inspired by the true story of my life and journey from homelessness and beyond. It?s an inspiring story of courage, tragedy, adventure, perseverance, determination, resilience, faith, and redemption. The story is about my life in the beginning, growing up, surviving the fire incident, and early demise of my three sisters. Life without my father, fear of my mother, and life in the navy. I suffered thirty years from low self-esteem, fear, anger, resentments, worthlessness, loneliness, hopelessness, homelessness, substance abuse, failed attempts to maintain employment, mental institutions, churches, shelters, jails, bad relationships, and marriages too! I walked in the kingdom of darkness (Hell) for thirty years determined to find myself; I finally made a final decision to get my life on track once and for all! One day, I evaluated my entire life as far as I could remember. I began to peel off the layers of my unresolved issues like a banana. I confronted the tragic death of my three sisters, which I honestly haven?t done before, for closure purposes. I confronted the anger and resentments I harbored toward my mother for her failures, including my father for abandoning me. I was angry with myself for my history of substance abuse and homelessness, also for not reaching out for help in the beginning when I should have done so. I completed an intense, detailed evaluation of my life one day. I began to cry until I was all cried out. I had enough faith to pray to God at the time. I asked God to renew in me a new heart and spirit to serve him. To be the man that he intended me to be. After I finished praying, I felt a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. This was my defining moment and the turning point of my life. I began to see light at the end of the tunnel! I began to seek treatment for my depression and PTSD. I attended (NA) meetings. I began to read and apply the word of God in my life daily. The wounds of my past miraculously began to heal. Over a period of time, my wife noticed an internal transformation taking place in my life! I began to forgive everyone who done me wrong, including my worst enemy of all, myself! Today, I live a life of purpose, not defeat, drug free and living one day at a time. I was compelled to write my life and journey from homelessness and beyond in hopes that my story may convey to anyone who may be struggling with their personal giants, especially the homeless; there is hope!!! You can make it. I?m grateful that I had the opportunity to have gotten the help I needed. There are good people in the world. I?m a veteran who enlisted and was honorably discharged from both, the US Navy from 1986 to 1991, and the Army reserve from 1992 to 2000. Today, I currently serve as an enlisted soldier in the Army of the Lord!
Download or read book The Life of the Bee written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
