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This is your guide to becoming a successful back yard bee keeper. Want to find out what all the buzz is about beekeeping? The latest edition of Beekeeping For Dummies gives you the most trusted and up-to-date information on safely keeping your own bees, including complete instructions for assembling and maintaining bee hives, handling all phases of honey production, using the latest tools and equipment,and much more. Keeping your own bees has many...

Covers the physical structure of honeybees and how they live in colonies, as well as how they produce honey and are managed by beekeepers.

Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.

It's cold outside and time for bugs to hunker down for the winter, but Ant isn't ready to be all by herself for months on end without her best friend, Honey Bee, so she braves the cold for one last surprise visit before the snow flies.

Describes the roles of the types of bees, their activities in the hive, and their many uses to man.

Describes the life cycle of the hard-working honeybee

"Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain. As they gather nectar from flowers to make sweet honey, these bees also play an important role in pollination, helping some plants produce fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are disappearing every year ... and no one knows why. Is a fungus kill ing them? Could a poor diet be the cause? What about changes to bees' natural habitat? In this real-life science mystery,scientists and beekeepers are working...

Explains the physical characteristics, behavior, diet, habitat, and geographical distribution of North American turtles.

Bees are introduced to the preschooler with colorful pictures and lively information.

Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally demanding as it is rewarding. Exploring the progression of both the author and the hive through the seasons,...