Following the Wild Bees
The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 164 pages ; 23 cm
Following the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today. Thomas Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, vividly describes the history and science behind this lost pastime and how anyone can do it.
Contents:
The bee box and other tools -- Bee-hunting season -- Establishing a beeline -- Timing bees to estimate distance to home -- Making moves down the beeline -- Finding the bee tree -- On not "taking up" the bee tree.
ISBN:
9780691170268
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ANIMALS Bug Bee See | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.