Download or read book California Bees and Blooms written by G. W. Frankie and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best source for information on California bees and how to help them thrive in your garden Identification and guidance for planting
Download or read book Bees in America written by Tammy Horn and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept” (Buffalo News). The tiny, industrious honey bee has become part of popular imagination—reflected in our art, our advertising, even our language itself with such terms as queen bee and busy as a bee. Honey bees—and the values associated with them—have influenced American culture for four centuries. Bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability throughout the changes, challenges, and expansions of a highly diverse country. Bees in America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first brought bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being trained by the American military to detect bombs. Horn shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees’ societal structures shaped our ideals about work, family, community, and leisure. This book is both a fascinating read and an “excellent example of the effects agriculture has on history” (Booklist). “A wealth of worthy material.” —Publishers Weekly
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 Southern Bee Culture written by J. J. Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Bees written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Southern Bee Culture written by J. J. Wilder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southern Bee Culture My memory begins with standing in front of a colony of bees, with a brush-broom in hand; and until I was large enough to take interest in the apiary work, whenever I saw a colony of bees they commanded my attention, and my gratification was not appeased until I had seen the owner and questioned him (or her) concerning the bees; and many times I have been rebuked for continual questioning. At that time we were traveling in an oxwagon over Texas, where I saw much of the bee and honey industry, and my interest in the honey-bee grew deeper, and it is needless to say that driving a sleigh around over the wood while the bee-hunters were finding bee-trees, and cutting them, was the joy of my boyhood days. Whenever bees were robbed in the settlement I was always on hand, ready to take part. I soon became a bee-hunter myself, and all spare moments were spent at this; and many times I have looked up trees on Saturday evenings (for it was a bout all the leisure time I had) so constantly that I would have a crick in my neck and all the following week. Many times I have cut and robbed rich bee-trees, and no one with me to share the pleasure. Besides looking after bees for others we established an old-style box-hive apiary (for it was the best we could do then, for there was no better hive known to us. I took a leading interest in this apiary, and a few times we had a good apiary established. Then they would die back to only a few colonies, and I did all I could to save them. Finally one spring we had only one hive left, and later in the spring I turned it bottom end up and found it a mass of moth. I went down in the pine thicket and sat down beside a tree and took a long cry over the death of the last colony, and then and there I resolved that, if I ever had another start of bees, I would give them even more and better attention. Then I tried to buy another start of bees, but failed. I found many bee-trees, but failed in saving the bees; so for several years we had no bees, and farm life was not what it once was to me; for when we had the apiary I would spend my leisure moments at noon under the shady mulberry-trees where it was located, doing all I knew how to help the bees, and I would watch the little streams of them as they would pour in and out of the hives, and listen at night to their heavy roar. But now this inspiration was a thing of the past, and farm life had lost its greatest charm to me. Several years elapsed, and I looked after bees only for others. Finally a widow lady gave me a colony for giving her bees such good attention. One cold winter night I carried the hive of bees home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Attracting Native Pollinators written by The Xerces Society and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent decline of the European honey bee, it is more important than ever to encourage the activity of other native pollinators to keep your flowers beautiful and your grains and produce plentiful. In Attracting Native Pollinators, you’ll find ideas for building nesting structures and creating a welcoming habitat for an array of diverse pollinators that includes not only bees, but butterflies, moths, and more. Take action and protect North America’s food supply for the future, while at the same time enjoying a happily bustling landscape.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of Black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Hive written by Thomas D Seeley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research--including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance--offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works.
Download or read book The Bees in Your Backyard written by Joseph S. Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the roughly 4000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field
Download or read book The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture written by Amos Ives Root and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Managing Alternative Pollinators written by Eric Mader and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the history of the British fire service from 1800-1980, embracing certain key themes of modern British history: the impact of industrial change on urban development, the effect of disaster on political reform, the growth of the state, and the relationship between masculinity and trade unionism in creating a professional identity"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Thebesto Bee written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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