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2022.
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"Did you know there are blue bees and green bees? That there's one species of bee that nests in snail shells? Or that many bees don't live in hives? With more than 20,000 species of bees on Earth, there's more to bees than just honey! [This book] gives you a close-up vies of busy buzzers from around the world. From the familiar western honeybee to the extra-large Himalayan giant honeybee and Australia's vibrant neon cuckoo bee, these pages are packed...
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Bees play an essential role in the pollination of crops, but they face an increasing number of threats. This book provides information about 32 bee species including their size, habitat, location, nesting and eating habits, plus other interesting facts. A photograph of each species allows easy identification of these beautiful and important insects. Jack Byard is a former mechanic, jewelry craftsman and school technician. He is retired and now lives...
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[2016]
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English
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This book provides an introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 color photos of the bees living all around us -- in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural history, including where they live, how they gather food,...
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[2023]
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English
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"When many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, insects that live in large, socially complex societies inside a hive with a single queen and thousands of workers. But this familiar bee is just one of more than 20,000 species of bees--and almost none of the others is anything like it. In Bees of the World, Laurence Packer, one of the world's foremost experts on wild bees, celebrates the amazing diversity...
5) Common native bees of the Eastern United States: your way to easily identify bees and look-alikes
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[2022]
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English
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This pocket-sized booklet features common bees of the eastern United States and their look-alikes, so you can quickly and easily identify them.
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[2021]
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English
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"Bees play an essential role in the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops across the globe. In North America alone there are more than 4,000 bee species. In spite of their abundance and diversity there is no accessible field guide for the non-expert. This book will remedy that situation by providing a carefully crafted introduction to bee identification for eastern North America. No portable field guide could include coverage of the...
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