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The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men

10 best books like The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men (William Longgood): Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World, For Love of Insects, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, 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

Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World
AuthorHolley Bishop
ISBN0743250222
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...
For Love of Insects
AuthorThomas Eisner
ISBN0674011813
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...
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
AuthorDavid Allen Sibley
A guidebook certainly to find its lofty place within my other treasures. My good friend in Florida remarked yesterday, "Birds offer free entertainment", and I could not agree more. A little late in life for me to find a new interest in identifying birds, but owning a cabin in northern Michigan and a small...
Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet
AuthorSusan Brackney
ISBN0399534962
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...
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
AuthorBee Wilson
ISBN0312342616
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
AuthorRowan Jacobsen
ISBN1596915374
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
AuthorL.L. Langstroth
ISBN0486433846
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...
The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore
AuthorHilda M. Ransome
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...
The Beekeeper's Handbook
AuthorDiana Sammataro
ISBN0801485037
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
AuthorKim Flottum
ISBN1592531180
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...
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
AuthorTammy Horn
ISBN0813191637
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....
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
AuthorHattie Ellis
ISBN1400054060
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,...
Life in the Undergrowth
AuthorDavid Attenborough
ISBN0691127034
An insect disguises itself as a flower or leaf. A spider lassoes its prey. A beetle persuades a bee to care for its young. This beautifully illustrated book by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough offers a rare glimpse into the secret life of invertebrates, the world's tiniest--and most fascinating--creatures.


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Honeybee Democracy
AuthorThomas D. Seeley
ISBN0691147213
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...
Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
AuthorSue Halpern
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,...
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
AuthorSharman Apt Russell
ISBN0465071600
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0395883245
"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things:...
A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico
AuthorDonald J. Borror
ISBN0395911702
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time.  Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated...
Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind
AuthorStephen Buchmann
ISBN0553382667
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,...
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
AuthorScott Weidensaul
ISBN0865476683
"A thoughtful examination of the machinery of extinction . . . By turns harrowing and elegiac, thrilling and informative." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Three or four times an hour, eighty or more times a day, a unique species of plant or animal vanishes forever. And yet, every so...
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture
AuthorRoss Conrad
ISBN1933392088
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...
Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper
AuthorC. Marina Marchese
ISBN1579128157
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...
Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the World
AuthorCourtney Humphries
ISBN0061259160
Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came to dominate our urban public spaces. While detailing...
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America
AuthorNational Audubon Society
ISBN0394507630
Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range,...
Bees: (cw 351)
AuthorRudolf Steiner
ISBN0880104570
8 Lectures in Dornach, Nov 26, 1923 to Dec 22, 1923 (CW 351)

In 1923 Rudolf Steiner predicted the dire state of today's honeybee. He stated that, within fifty to eighty years, we would see the consequences of mechanizing the forces that had previously operated organically in the beehive. Such...
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