Insects category: 384 books
Grow a Butterfly Garden
Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-114
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 1990
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
by Herbert Otto
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Butterflies of the Kruger National Park and Surrounds enables identification of these colourful creatures and hopes to promote general interest in the natural world. A lavish and fascinating introduction raises topics such as classification of Lepidoptera, butterfly behavior, names, biology and life...
Gardening for Birds, Butterflies, and Bees
Everything you need to Know to Create a wildlife Habitat in your Backyard
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Whether you’re installing a new garden bed or trying to attract orioles for the first time, it helps to start with the right information. And here it is! In this book, experts and readers from North America's #1 Bird and Garden Magazine, Birds & Blooms, give their tried-and-true advice.
Attracting...
by Paul Sterry, Andrew Cleave, Rob Read
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
A comprehensive and fully illustrated guide, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for anyone interested in butterflies and moths found in Britain and Ireland. Every species that occurs regularly in Britain and Ireland is included, along with a section dealing with the ‘rarest...
A Keeper of Bees
Notes on Hive and Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
I was hooked. Call it adrenaline surge, call it honeybee venom in my veins–whatever the explanation, henceforth I would need these funky little critters in my life. Givers of sweet, thick honey, bringers forth of the fruits from trees and bushes and who knew what else, they also gave more food for...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This detailed guide to fly fishing for salmon comprises nine detailed chapters written by various experts on the subject. It is extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and drawings. Fly fishing for Salmon takes a comprehensive and informative look at the subject and is highly...
by M. Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
If one eye of a ‘Lobster’ grasshopper is destroyed, then a new one emerges. The eyes of female grasshopper are found in her tail. Found in New Guiana, this grasshopper’s length is 35 cm. It remains alive only for 14 days and during this period does not eat anything.
A fish named ‘Jaculus’...
Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition
How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen...
by Ramon Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
A Beginners Guide To Beekeeping: Everything You Need To Know To Become A Successful Beekeeper
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: History Of Beekeeping Chapter 2: Aquiring The Bees Chapter 3: Curbside Honey Sales Chapter 4: Beekeeping And The Apple Orchard Chapter...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beekeeping
Everything the Budding Beekeeper Needs for a Healthy, Productive Hive
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The buzz on beekeeping.
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...
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees, 2nd Edition
Honey Production, Pollination, Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This trusted handbook is a must-have for novice and seasoned beekeepers alike. Now totally redesigned and featuring color photos and graphics, the second edition also includes up-to-date information on honey bee health. The go-to reference presents comprehensive yet accessible information on everything...
Starting Right with Bees
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-36
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1981
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Call of Nature
The Secret Life of Dung
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature’s ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start of a race against the clock as a multitude of dung-feeders and scavengers consume...
Beeconomy
What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Queen bee. Worker bees. Busy as a bee. These phrases have shaped perceptions of women for centuries, but how did these stereotypes begin? Who are the women who keep bees and what can we learn from them? Beeconomy examines the fascinating evolution of the relationship between women and bees around...