bee culture

"Learn how to properly house your bees in all seasons, manage your colony's nutrition, maintain an effective pollination schedule, prevent and treat mites and disease, introduce a new queen to the hive, capture a swarm, [and] harvest and store your honey crop"--Provided by publisher.

"Discover whether honey beekeeping is right for you, and find out everything you need to know to keep and acquire bees in this updated guide . . . counsels beginners on all things honeybee related. Takes readers from finding bees and housing them to collecting honey and using their produce for pleasure and possible profit"--Publisher.

"Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: bees! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia's dad is a beekeeper. . . But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia. Can she find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is?"--Provided by publisher.

"A naturalist's passionate dive into the world of bees of all stripes--what she has learned about them, and what we can learn from them"--Amazon.

Readers learn how honey is made, from bees collecting flower nectar to beekeepers collecting and jarring it.

Traces the natural history of bees and honey, focusing on how they have impacted the lives of humans from prehistory to the present.

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

Depicts the life cycle and habits of the honeybee, describing in detail the organization of the hive and the making of honey.

"Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees. May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality"--Dust jacket.

"Lionel wants to save Aunt Celine's bees. He feels the solution is the rooftop gardens and window boxes of his apartment neighbors in Paris."--OCLC.