Following the Wild Bees : : The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting / / Thomas D. Seeley.
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 a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 50 color illus. 5 halftones. 1 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Bee Box and Other Tools
- 3. Bee-Hunting Season
- 4. Establishing a Beeline
- 5. Timing Bees to Estimate Distance to Home
- 6. Making Moves Down the Beeline
- 7. Finding the Bee Tree
- 8. On Not "Taking Up" the Bee Tree
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index