Insects category: 384 books
Beekeeping
A Practical Beekeeping Guide to Keeping & Managing Bees Properly
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
"Are you ready to learn about Beekeeping?" "Does the idea of keeping bees intrigue you?" "Interested in raising bees?" This Practical Guide Is Designed For Those That Might Not Really Understand The Science Behind Raising Bees and Beekeeping and Are Looking To Increase...
Beekeeping for Beginner's Guide: Backyard Honey Bee Basics
Homesteading Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Beekeeping for Beginner's Guide: Backyard Honey Bee Basics
Do you want to help save the bees and build your own colony?
Do you want a way to collect your own honey?
Do you have an interest in becoming a beekeeper?
Then Beekeeping for Beginner's Guide: Backyard Honey Bee Basics by Bo Tucker...
Backyard Bees
A guide for the beginner beekeeper
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Just about anyone can keep bees. All you need is a bit of space in your backyard (or on your rooftop) and a little love for the creatures that pollinate the vegie patches of your neighbourhood. Once introduced to the charms of beekeeping and the taste of warm honeycomb direct from the hive, you'll...
Natural Beekeeping
Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
"Today's beekeepers face unprecedented challenges, a fact that is now front-page news with the spread of ""colony collapse disorder."" Newly introduced pests like varroa and tracheal mites have made chemical treatment of hives standard practice, but pest resistance is building,...
Bee-Kind Garden
Apian Wisdom for Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Bees are vital for the future of the planet; without their dedicated pollinating many crops would eventually fail. This delightfully illustrated book reveals many facets of their lives, including homes, flight patterns, and defense. It also describes how to attract bees to your garden. The lives of...
A MANIFESTATION OF MONSTERS
Examining The (Un)usual Suspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The spectacular front-cover painting by American artist Michael J. Smith, depicting 17 astonishing mystery beasts and other controversial entities, was the inspiration for this latest book by leading cryptozoologist Dr. Karl Shuker. Every one of those creatures--and much more--is featured in this...
The Bed Bug Book
The Complete Guide to Prevention and Extermination
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The definitive handbook on the detection, treatment, and prevention of bed bugs--a must have guide for every homeowner, renter, landlord, and traveler.
Bed bugs were believed to have been eradicated by DDT and organophosphates in the 1950s, but they are now reaching epidemic levels. Some cities...
The Story of the Fly
..and How It Could Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The story of the fly and how it could save the world will take you behind the pesky reputation and inside the brain and body of the much misunderstood fly.It investigates the insect as a pest and how man has tried tirelessly, often unsuccessfully) to kill it exploring everything from how it walks on...
by J. W. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
“Sunshine and the Dry Fly” is a classic guide to fly-fishing, with a special focus on fishing for trout. Written in simple, plain language and full of helpful illustrations, this volume represents a timeless handbook for the fly fisherman, and it would make for a fine addition to collections of...
Empire of the Beetle
How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
"A compelling look at what may be the single biggest impact of climate change, and a harbinger of life to come on a warming planet." -- Jim Robbins, The New York Times
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of pine beetle (also known as the bark beetle) outbreaks unsettled iconic forests...
by Rudolf Steiner, Gunther Hauk
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
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 practices include breeding queen bees artificially. The fact that over...
The Hive
The Story of the Honeybee and Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
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...
Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This latest edition of the Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland has been fully revised, updated and restructured, bringing it in line with the latest thinking in taxonomy. Moths are illustrated in their natural resting postures, and there are also paintings of different forms, underwings...
Spider Silk
Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wondered, as a spider rappelled out of reach on a line of...