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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects

by Amy Stewart

In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world,

Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes-creatures

that infest, infect, and generally...


Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Bee Health

by RichardE. Bonney & MalcolmT. Sanford

Everyone is buzzing about bees! Urban beekeeping is on the rise as swarms of people do their part to help nurture local food systems, make gardens more productive, connect with nature, and rescue honey bee populations...


A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey

by Ilona McCarty & E. Readicker-Henderson

There are around 16,000 species of bee. Only seven of these are responsible for creating the world's sweetest treat - honey. Combining Ilona's gorgeous photography and E. Readicker-Henderson's engaging text,...


Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide: Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies

by TheXercesSociety

The recent decline of the European honey bee and other pollinators in North America poses a serious challenge to maintaining our food supply and ecological health. According to the National Academy of Sciences,...


Starting Right with Bees: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-36

by StoreyPublishingLLC

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...


The Lore of the Honey Bee - Natural History and Bee-Keeping

by Tickner Edwardes

Originally published in 1908. One of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee. Contents Include: The Ancients and the Honey Bee The Isle of Honey Bee Masters in the Middle Ages...


First Lessons In Beekeeping

by C. P. Dadant

Originally published in 1917, this is a wonderful early work on beekeeping and contains much information and many photos. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are...


Robbing The Bees: A Biography Of Honey

by Holley Bishop

"Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography," writes Holley Bishop. Bees have been making this food on Earth for hundreds of millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination...


The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators

by Gordon Grice

Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among...


Ticks and What You Can Do About Them

by Roger Drummond

Describes all common, North America ticks and tick-related diseases, including symptoms and treatment. Learn how to avoid ticks, and how to remove them if they become attached. Maps show the geographic distribution...


Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities

by Luke Dixon

Keeping Bees in Towns and Cities features everything an urbanite needs to know to start keeping bees: how to select the perfect hive, how to buy bees, how to care for a colony, how to harvest honey, and what...


FIELD GUIDE TO INSECTS OF BRITAIN AND NORTHERN EUROPE

by Bob Gibbons

Written by well-known naturalists and photographers, this guide will enable the easy identification of around 1,000 of the more common insects found in the region. The carefully chosen selection represents all...


Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World

by Marlene Zuk

Biologist Marlene Zuk takes us on a fascinating tour of the world of insects, questioning our long-held assumptions about cooperation, family loyalty, the nature of personality, and teaching an old bug new tricks. ...


Insectopedia

by Hugh Raffles

A New York Times Notable Book

A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we...


Field Guide to Insects of South Africa

by Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths

This is the first comprehensive field guide to the insects of South Africa, with descriptions of over 1 200 of the region's insects. The easy-to-read accounts cover identification, biology, distribution and...


Spiders of Southern Africa

by Astri Leroy & John Leroy

Spiders of southern Africa provides sharp insight into the complex, mysterious and fascinating world of spiders. Reflecting the latest taxonomic information, this book discusses the origins of arachnids, their...


Filmer's Spiders: An Identification Guide for Southern Africa

by Martin R Filmer, Norman Larsen & Linda Duigan

Fully revised and updated, this book features all 63 families of spider that occur in this region. A fresh layout, full-colour photographs - many of them new - and diagrams of diagnostic features make this an...


Bees in America

by Tammy Horn

"Queen Bee," "busy as a bee," and "the land of milk and honey" are expressions that permeate the language within American culture. Music, movies, art, advertising, poetry, children's books, and literature all...


Beeconomy

by Tammy Horn

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...


Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America

by David L. Wagner, Dale F. Schweitzer & J. Bolling Sullivan

This lavishly illustrated field guide features more than 800 species of the most common, interesting, beautiful, and important owlet (noctuid) caterpillars found in eastern North America. More than 2,100 color...