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3) Bees
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This book introduces readers to the unique features of bees. Basic information is covered, such as anatomy, life cycle, habitat, range, diet, and how bees make honey.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping has all the information a beginning beekeeper needs to know to start a hive and keep it buzzing. Expert beekeepers Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer, owners of Golden Rule Honey, take readers step by step through the entire process, from information on the inhabitants of a hive and how it works to collecting bees, keeping them healthy, raising a queen, harvesting honey and wax, and storing hives for the...
5) The bee book
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Presents information about bees and how important they are to pollination and ecosystems around the world. Discusses the danger of the declining population of bees and discusses ways readers can help bees in their homes' outdoor spaces.
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Did you know that bees communicate by dancing? That honey has long been used medicinally? That some honey hunters do their work high in the tualang trees of Malaysia? Here's everything you ever wanted to know about honey, the bees that make it, and the people who harvest it.
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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
10) Honeybees
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Simple text and photographs introduce young readers to some of the unique characteristics of honeybees.
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"Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it"--
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This practical guide presents a step-by-step approach to starting your own beehive, along with expert tips for maintaining a healthy colony. You get the latest on honey bee medication and treatments, assembling and sustaining your own hive, and harvesting and marketing your honey.
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Keep your own bees and enjoy delicious golden honey from your own backyard. With his respect and admiration for bees evident on every page, Richard E. Bonney describes how to acquire bees, manage a hive, prevent and treat diseases, and extract a crop of honey. Enthusiastic beekeepers of every stripe and experience level will benefit from Bonney’s astonishing knowledge of the craft — from beekeeping history and honeybee biology to the complex...
18) The honey makers
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Covers the physical structure of honeybees and how they live in colonies, as well as how they produce honey and are managed by beekeepers.
20) Telling the bees
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A lifelong beekeeper, Albert Honig is deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives. He knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of eucalyptus; and that bees are at their gentlest in a swarm. But Albert is less versed in the ways of people, especially his beautiful, courageous, and secretive friend Claire.
A friend and neighbor since childhood,...
A lifelong beekeeper, Albert Honig is deeply acquainted with the ways and workings of the hives. He knows that bees dislike wool clothing and foul language; that the sweetest honey is made from the blooms of eucalyptus; and that bees are at their gentlest in a swarm. But Albert is less versed in the ways of people, especially his beautiful, courageous, and secretive friend Claire.
A friend and neighbor since childhood,...