A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
10 best books like A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (Sue Hubbell): Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World, For Love of Insects, Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual, The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, The Beekeeper's Handbook, The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden, Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
| Author | Holley Bishop |
| ISBN | 0743250222 |
Holley Bishop loves bees. No, more than that: she idolizes them. She marvels at their native abilities and the momentous role these misunderstood and unjustly feared creatures have played in the development of human history. And with her book, Robbing the Bees, she succeeds in making the reader love...
| Author | Thomas Eisner |
| ISBN | 0674011813 |
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers - and you will have entered an insect world...
| Author | Susan Brackney |
| ISBN | 0399534962 |
A fascinating guided tour through the history, folklore, and function of the endangered honeybee.
Featured recently in major national news stories because they are disappearing at an alarming rate, bees are the unsung-and absolutely essential- heroes of the food chain. Now they get their...
| Author | Bee Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312342616 |
Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification so passionate, persistent, or fantastical.
The...
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
| Author | Rowan Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 1596915374 |
How the disappearance of the world's honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk.
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when "there was no pollination and there would be no fruit." The fruitless fall nearly...
Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual
| Author | L.L. Langstroth |
| ISBN | 0486433846 |
This influential guide by the Reverend L. L. Langstroth, "the father of modern beekeeping," revolutionized the practice of beekeeping. Originally published in 1853, his work constitutes the first descriptive treatise of modern bee management — its innovations allowed people to engage in actual...
No creature has provided man with so much wholesome food as the honey bee. Equally impressive is the number of beliefs and superstitions the industrious insect has inspired. Its honey, which was known to the ancient Greeks as the “food of the Gods,” played an important role in early religious rites...
| Author | Diana Sammataro |
| ISBN | 0801485037 |
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 have saturated the North American honeybee population...
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
| Author | Kim Flottum |
| ISBN | 1592531180 |
This book isnÆt only a guide to beekeeping or a honey cookbook; itÆs both. No other book on the market provides an in-depth review of beekeeping and what honey is good for and how to use it. Beautifully illustrated,
The Backyard Beekeeper
is perfect for the health conscious person who wants to sweeten...
| Author | Tammy Horn |
| ISBN | 0813191637 |
Honey bees--and the qualities associated with them--have quietly influenced American values for four centuries. During every major period in the country's history, bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, or language....
| Author | Michael Schacker |
| ISBN | 1599214326 |
When I picked up this book, I expected to find out some strange unknown environmental factor that was killing off the bees. What I found was that the news media sources have not been doing their homework, some universities and governments have just been pointing their fingers in the wrong directions,...
| Author | Hattie Ellis |
| ISBN | 1400054060 |
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throughout history,...
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains,...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957387 |
When award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich became the unwitting -- but doting -- foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep, he was drawn into her world. And so, with a scientist's training and a nature lover's boundless enthusiasm, he set out to understand the travails and triumphs...
| Author | William Longgood |
| ISBN | 0393305287 |
This was a wonderful book, but I may be biased in saying this due to my obsession with bees. It's very informative in terms of beekeeping, but it goes beyond that. Longgood not only writes about bees, but he also writes about us, humans. He compares the bee's actions to ours very insightfully. It's clear...
Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind
| Author | Stephen Buchmann |
| ISBN | 0553382667 |
They work hard, are devoted to family, love sex, and know the importance of a good piece of real estate. Honey bees, and the daily workings of their close-knit colonies, are one of nature's great miracles. And they produce one of nature's greatest edible bounties: honey. More than just a palate pleaser,...
| Author | Ross Conrad |
| ISBN | 1933392088 |
From the land of Vermont (home to Bill McKibben, Bernie Sanders, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, as well as the annual "Slow Living" event Strolling of the Heifers), comes Ross Conrad, beekeeper, columnist (for Bee Culture), and advocate for natural and organic beekeeping.
His book...
Keeping Bees with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Tend Hives, Harvest Honey & More
| Author | Ashley English |
| ISBN | 1600596266 |
Heard the buzz? Beekeeping is back! Neighborhoods across the country have embraced it as a source of sustainable food and environmental goodness. For those who want to join the "hive" of keepers, Ashley English has the lowdown on the key issues, from space and time considerations to local ordinances...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0738206695 |
In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers, showing them to be more individual, more enterprising, and more responsive than we ever imagined. From their diverse fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, where nature is concerned, "wonder...
| Author | Jennifer R. Bartley |
| ISBN | 0881927724 |
A beautiful and bountiful food garden starts here.
The pleasures of growing your own food can be multiplied by creating a garden that is not only productive, but also a beautiful, well-integrated part of your home landscape. In Designing the New Kitchen Garden, Jennifer Bartley shows how...
| Author | Dave Jacke |
| ISBN | 1890132608 |
Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make...
| Author | C. Marina Marchese |
| ISBN | 1579128157 |
Now in paperback, Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves
"[An] engaging, delightfully informative work?" ?Publishers Weekly
"Marchese has given us a lovely gift. Honeybee is an entertaining and useful...
| Author | Stephen L. Buchmann |
| ISBN | 1559633530 |
Really good.
I had read about this years ago, and finally got around to it, expecting something fairly academic.
I was surprised then to see the vivid, kind of aggressive cover as various pollinators come right at you. This is accompanied by several other illustrations that are surprisingly...
