Tag: Bees

Free Download Noel Badges Pugh, "Field Guide to the Common Bees of California: Including Bees of the Western United States"
English | 2013 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0520272846, 0520272838 | EPUB | 14,0 mb
This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States. Full-color illustrations introduce readers to more than 30 genera of native bees, noting each one’s needs and habits and placing them in their wider context. The author highlights bees’ ties to our own lives, the food we eat, and the habitat we provide, and suggests ways to support bees in our own backyards.

Free Download A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPZNT4NS | 2024 | 5 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Sue Hubbell
Narrator: Lauren DePorre
Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally demanding as it is rewarding. Exploring the progression of both the author and the hive through the seasons, this is "a book about bees to be sure, but it is also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude; the seasonal rhythms inherent in rural living; the achievement of independence; the accommodating of oneself to nature" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Beautifully written and full of exquisitely rendered details, it is a tribute to Hubbell’s wild hilltop in the Ozarks and of the joys of living a complex life in a simple place.

Free Download Honey Bees, Beekeeping and Bee Products
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103240650X | 224 Pages | PDF (True) | 11.4 MB
Honey bees are social insects; they live together in large, well-organized family groups comprising three castes: queen (fertile female), workers (sterile females) and drones (males). During honey flow season, there is a considerable increase in the foraging activity of the workers and in the rate of egg laying by the queen. Sex determination in honey bees involves a multi-allelic locus, such that homozygotes develop as males and heterozygotes as females, whereas diet quality influences the caste determination in honey bees. Like all living organisms, honey bees can be infested with diseases and pests. Some of these are more deleterious to bee colonies than others, but it is important for the beekeeper to be able to recognize conditions that might be disease or pest-related and respond accordingly so as to improve the quality of honey and honey bee by-products.

Free Download Thomas D. Seeley, "Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved"
English | ISBN: 0691237697 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 69 MB

Free Download The Little Book of bees by Karl Weiss
English | PDF (True) | 2002 | 169 Pages | ISBN : 0387952527 | 2.6 MB
chapter1 Bees in the Animal Kingdom and in Earth’s History 1 chapter2 The Bee-An Insect chapter3 What Does "Social" Mean in the Animal Kingdom? 25 Anonymous Societies 26 Family Associations 28 The Insect Colony 30 Social Classifications 34 chapter4 The Traits of Bees and Their System chapter5 Solitary Bees and Social Development 45 Solitary Bees 45 On the Way to a Colony Unique Mating Behavior 75 Threats from Outside, and Enemies Within the Ranks 77 chapter6 Bumblebees and Stingless Bees Bumblebees Stingless Bees 97 84 83 63 35 15 chapter7 On the Summit of Social Insect Life 7 The Genus Apis: Species and Races The Domestic Honeybee The Comb The Colony and Its Individuals Brood Rearing and Division of Labor What Holds a Colony Together 8 How New Colonies Originate Sensory Capabilities 2 Artists of Orientation The Language of Honeybees 8 chapter8 Nest Aids for Wild Bees 145 Abridged Bibliography and Further Reading 1 Index 155 15 13 136 13 130 12 126 122 118 118 108 10 Preface People generally think of bees as insects that fly out of hives and make us honey. Actually, there are many different kinds of bees, most of which live relatively hidden from our view. Maybe some of us are familiar with bumblebees, but who would recognize the solitary bees, which considerably o- number the social bees? These little-observed bees are often dubbed "wild bees" to distinguish them from our honeymakers.

Free Download David Withrington, Ivan Esenko, "How they live… Bees: Learn All There Is to Know About These Animals!"
English | 2016 | ASIN: B01CQR5Y82 | EPUB | pages: 13 | 7.8 mb
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Free Download Harry Oliver, "Bees Knees and Barmy Armies – Origins of the Words and Phrases we Use Every Day"
English | 2010 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1843582546 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
Why do we call the best of something ‘the bees’ knees’? Where did the term ‘barmy army’ come from? Which ‘colours’ do we ‘nail to the mast’? How are we ever ‘dressed to the nines’? Why do we refer to New York as ‘The Big Apple’? There are hundreds of phrases that we use on a daily basis without having a clue about where most of them come from. This book is nothing short of a fascinating ride around the greatest language in the world. So stop getting up to skullduggery, take a pew and have a butcher’s at this little tome. Learn about your language in one fell swoop and make sure you never get caught red handed using words you don’t understand to bark up the wrong tree! This book really is the cat’s whiskers. Once you’ve read one entry, you’ll want to read them all!

Free Download Raising Resilient Bees: Heritage Techniques to Mitigate Mites, Preserve Locally Adapted Genetics, and Grow Your Apiary by Eric McEwen, Joy McEwen
English | July 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 1645021947 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 44.28 MB
"Right from the start, this book takes you on a journey that is fascinating and thought-provoking. . . The McEwens demonstrate creative, out-of-the-box thinking and challenge traditional ways of keeping bees."-American Bee Journal

Free Download OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You’re About to Find Out Why by Matt Kracht
English | March 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 1797219901 | 132 pages | True PDF | 16.85 MB
Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous quips, lists, and musings, OMFG, BEES! will show you just how important these esteemed bee-list celebrities really are. (Hint: We can’t live without them.)

Free Download Matt Kracht, "OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You’re About to Find Out Why"
English | ISBN: 1797219901 | 2023 | EPUB | 128 pages | 17 MB
Guess what: Bees are incredible. If you don’t think so, you’re wrong; but you’re also in luck! Extreme bee enthusiast and bestselling author Matt Kracht is here to set the record straight with this helpful guidebook to all things bees.