Author: Eric GrissellPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929883
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Explores the biology, importance of, and methods of encouragement of bees, wasps, and ants found in a garden.
Bees, Wasps, and Ants
Author: Eric GrissellPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 0881929883
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Explores the biology, importance of, and methods of encouragement of bees, wasps, and ants found in a garden.
The Social Wasps of North America
Author: Chris Alice KratzerPublisher: Owlfly Publishing
ISBN: 1737892715
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
With over 400 pages and 900 full-color illustrations, The Social Wasps of North America is the world's first complete illustrated field guide to all known species of social wasps from the high arctic of Greenland and Alaska to the tropical forests of Panama and Grenada. For beginners, experts, and everyone in-between, The Social Wasps of North America provides new insights about some of the world’s least popular beneficial insects, plus tips and tricks to avoid painful stings. This book includes detailed information about the ecology, evolution, taxonomy, anatomy, nest architecture, and conservation of social wasp species. To purchase this book in softcover format, visit our website at OwlflyLLC.com/publications.
Bees and Wasps
Author: James MaclainePublisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781835409770
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What do bees and wasps eat? What type of nests do they make? How do bees make honey? Find out the answers and lots more in this intriguing introduction to bees and wasps. Easy-to-read text is accompanied by full-colour photographs and step-by-step visual explanations. Includes internet links to exciting websites to find out more about bees and wasps.
I Can Read about Bees and Wasps
Author: David CuttsPublisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816744442
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
With colorful illustrations and clear text, this book looks into the lives of the common insects, bees and wasps.
Can You Tell a Bee from a Wasp?
Author: Buffy SilvermanPublisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761379940
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Something buzzes past your ear. A yellow-and-black insect flies to a colorful flower. It crawls around and then zooms away. Did you just see a bee? Or was it a wasp? These animals look very similar, but they are different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look-alikes apart! Learn the fascinating differences between similar animals in the Animal Look-Alikes series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
Wasps
Author: Heather HolmPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991356317
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
WASPS is the first full-color, illustrated guide featuring approximately 150 species of flower-visiting wasps that occur in eastern North America, and the specific native plants and habitat each species depends upon. Written with an ecological lens, this richly-illustrated book details wasp diversity and has full-page profiles for each wasp species that include identification tips, geographic range maps, biology, prey, natural history and habitat. Five introductory chapters cover wasp taxonomy, nesting biology, prey-hunting behaviors, diet, anatomy, as well as wasp habitat enhancement and management, and the ecosystem services provided by wasps-insect pest population control and pollination. Profiles of each wasp species comprise the major part of the book and are organized by family, showcasing twelve families and sixty-eight wasp genera. Also included are eastern North American regional native plant guides, tips on wasp observation, and over 1000 stunning photographs. This is an essential book for conservationists, naturalists, insect enthusiasts, biologists, nature photographers, native plant aficionados, and anyone interested in beneficial insects and pollinators.
Pollinators of Native Plants
Author: Heather HolmPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991356300
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This comprehensive, essential book profiles over 65 perennial native plant species of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada plus the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract ... Readers learn to attract and identify pollinators and beneficial insects as well as customize their landscape planting for a particular type of pollinator with native plants. The book includes information on pollination, types of pollinators, pollinator conservation as well as pollinator landscape plans."--
Trap-nesting Wasps and Bees: Life Histories, Nests, and Associates
Author: Karl V. KrombeinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Thing About Bees
Author: Shabazz LarkinPublisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430144491
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An exploration of the importance of bees in our world is offered through the author's lyrical observations to his young sons, often with analogies between the insects and children, and always beautifully presented with unconditional love for them both.
The Bees in Your Backyard
Author: Joseph S. WilsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691160775
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An introduction to the roughly 4000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field