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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Insects & spiders
A compact guide covering everything you need to know about insects
of the UK. This pocket-sized book is an essential guide to insects,
helping you to identify around 240 of the most easily noticed
British species selected from a range of orders and families. The
introduction covers the characteristics of an insect, where to find
them as well as the conservation work in demand around the world,
then entries on each species are divided into simple sections
covering general information followed by its flight period, habitat
and similar species. As visually impressive as it is useful in the
field, Pocket Guide to Insects features many stunning full-page and
double-page images supporting the authoritative text. Part of the
Pocket Guides series covering British and European wildlife,
including garden birds, butterflies, mushrooms, wild flowers, trees
and shrubs and tracks and signs.
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history
of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching
historical detail. The perfect gift. "A charming look at the
history of beekeeping, from myth and folklore to our practical
relationship with bees" Gardens Illustrated "An entertaining
collation of bee trivia across the millennia" Daily Telegraph *
Sweden's Gardening Book of the Year 2019 * Shortlisted for the
August Prize 2019 * Winner of the Swedish Book Design Award for
2019 Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moeller explores the
activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees'
natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her
encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject to shed light on humanity's
understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A
humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is
matched by a wry exploration of how and when they were replaced by
fact. In her travels Moeller encounters a trigger-happy Californian
beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring
beekeepers on the Danish island of Laeso, and Brother Adam of
Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular
throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others as
passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past
and present. Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry
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