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This proceedings volume is a result of an international symposium
that was held August 14-19, 1997 in Matrafured, Hungary.
After leading a regional office in Africa that studied ticks and
tick-borne diseases, Rupert Pegram received a call in 1994 that
changed his life. His higher ups wanted him to lead a new program
in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Amblyomma Program, known as the
CAP, sought to eliminate the Amblyomma tick from the Caribbean
region. The stakes were high because ticks transmit terrible
diseases. Today, the tropical pest introduced from Africa threatens
to invade large areas of the south and central parts of North
America. By learning about the progress, setbacks, political and
financial constraints, and final heartbreak of failure in the
Caribbean, the rest of world can discover how to fight the growing
problem. Learn why the CAP program failed and how the Caribbean
farmers who were let down by the program suffered. This history and
analysis conveys the need to re-establish vigorous research to
eradicate tick-borne illnesses. Ticks are invading the larger
world, and there are serious implications. They found much of their
strength during Thirteen Years of Hell in Paradise.
The world of butterflies and moths is amazing in its variety of
colors, shapes and patterns. You can bring these pictures to life
Pictures are one sided to facilitate removal for display.
This version of the book is fully illustrated and contains over a
hundred photographs in black & white. Moths of the Limberlost
is a fascinating book written by the well-known American novelist
and photographer Gene Stratton-Porter. It paints a vibrant picture
of her delight in the moths as she loves, cares for, breeds and
studies the creatures. The first chapter is an introduction and the
second is an overview of the natural history of moths, however, it
is only marginally technical and she interweaves the chapter with
her own experiences. In the final thirteen chapters she focuses on
one moth per chapter, the moths that have most caught her interest.
It is partly an autobiography as she describes her experiences from
childhood - her delights and joys at successfully breeding them or
learning something new about them and her sadness when they die or
don't breed. It describes her family's help in this passion and the
friends she gained through the pursuit. It is a beautiful window
into the person she was and her love of nature.
1879. Volume Four of Twenty-Three, Riverby Edition. John Burroughs
emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write
more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and
become the preeminent nature writer of his day. Through his essays
in books and popular magazines, John Burroughs taught countless
Americans to appreciate nature. Contents: The Pastoral Bees; Sharp
Eyes; Strawberries; Is It Going to Rain?; Speckled Trout; Birds and
Birds; A Bed of Boughs; Birds'-Nesting; and The Halcyon in Canada.
See other titles by this author available from Kessinger
Publishing.
The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of
the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to
willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic
bees over the imperial mantle that bore the arms of his dynasty;
and in the country of the Pharaohs the bee was used as the emblem
of a people sweetly submissive to the orders of its king. But the
fact is, a swarm of bees is an absolute democracy, and kings and
despots can find no warrant in their example. The power and
authority are entirely vested in the great mass, the workers.
A great book for anyone who is interested in beekeeping. This easy
to understand book with hundreds of illustrations walks you through
everything you need to know about beekeeping. Simply one of the
best books ever written on the subjects. A facsimile edition.
At a time when night-singing insects have slipped beyond our
notice indeed, are more likely to be heard as NatureSounds than in
a backyard John Himmelman seeks to reconnect us to creatures whose
songs form a part of our own natural history.
On warm summer evenings, night-singing insects produce a
whirring, chirping soundscape a calming aural tapestry celebrated
by poets and naturalists for millennia. But cricket radio is not
broadcast for the easy-listening pleasure of humans. The nocturnal
songs of insects are lures and warnings, full of risks and rewards
for these tiny competitive performers. What moves crickets and
katydids to sing, how they produce their distinctive sounds, how
they hear the songs of others, and how they vary cadence, volume,
and pitch to attract potential mates, warn off competitors, and
evade predators is part of the engaging story "Cricket Radio"
tells.
Himmelman s narrative weaves together his personal experiences
as an amateur naturalist in search of crickets and katydids with
the stories of scientists who study these insects professionally.
He also offers instructions for bringing a few of the little
singers into our homes and gardens. We can, Himmelman suggests, be
reawakened to these night songs that have meant so much to the
human psyche. The online insect calls that accompany this
colorfully illustrated narrative provide a bridge of sound to our
past and to our vital connection with other species.
This title offers an insightful and intelligent exploration of
modern beekeeping practices, and how they can be improved for a
more sustainable and bee-friendly approach. In recent years,
beekeepers around the world have suffered heavy and often dramatic
loss of their colonies. Is it possible that the way in which bees
are being kept could be part of the problem? And could hive design,
artificial queen breeding, medication, and other elements of modern
beekeeping be reducing the vitality of bees? "The Bee-Friendly
Beekeeper" examines the issues surrounding modern beekeeping
practices in order to identify an approach to keeping bees that is
not only better for the bees themselves, but also for the future of
beekeeping.
2010 Reprint of original 1934 edition. The Dadant family,
originally from France, is one the first families of beekeeping in
America. Charles Dadant (1817-1902) is considered one of the
founding fathers of modern beekeeping. He was always seeking a
better way to keep bees. Just as he had begun with the old European
"eke," he quickly abandoned that kind of beekeeping for the modern
Langstroth hive concept. Bee hives have often been designed and
built without regard for the needs and habits of the honey bee
colony. Probably the best design for a colony was the large hive
developed by Charles Dadant. It provided a large, deep brood
chamber with plenty of room in which the queen could lay, and
shallower supers for honey storage. However, the price and
promotion of smaller hives offered for sale during the period from
about 1885 to 1900 made them more popular. Charles son, Camille
Pierre Dadant, authored First Lessons in Beekeeping, a standard and
still important work on this subject. Dadant's book and its
succeeding editions have been America's first stop for beginning
beekeepers for over 90 years. Lavishing illustrated with
photographs.
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823 - 1915) was a French entomologist and
author. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist.
Fabre is probably best known for his findings in entomology for
which he is considered to be the father of modern entomology. Fabre
was an excellent teacher and his writing about the insects he loved
in a biographical form made his works very entertaining to read.
The Table of contents includes The fable of the cigale and the ant,
The cigale leaves its burrow, The song of the cigale, The cigale.
the eggs and their hatching, The mantis. the chase, The mantis.
Courtship, The mantis. the nest, The golden gardener. its
nutriment, The golden gardener. Courtship, The field cricket, The
Italian cricket, The sisyphus beetle. the instinct of paternity, A
bee-hunter: the _philanthus aviporus, The great peacock, or emperor
moth, The oak eggar, or banded monk, A truffle-hunter: the
_bolboceras gallicus, The elephant beetle, The pea-weevil, An
invader, the haricot-weevil, The gret locust, and The pine-chafer.
Monarch of the Butterflies describes in detail the life story of
this, one of the best-known and most-loved of nature's creatures.
In it the author introduces us to what we've learned from and about
the monarch, through science, literature and art.
1947. An encyclopedia pertaining to scientific and practical
culture of bees. Everything a beekeeper needs to know about
obtaining and keeping bee hives. The book is an encyclopedia of
information and terms on the honeybee. If you keep bees or want to
keep bees or simply want to know more about this unappreciated, but
vital aid to our modern agriculture, you need this book.
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823 - 1915) was a French entomologist and
author. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist.
Fabre is probably best known for his findings in entomology for
which he is considered to be the father of modern entomology. Fabre
was an excellent teacher and his writing about the insects he loved
in a biographical form made his works very entertaining to read.
Mason bees are named from their habit of making compartments of mud
in their nests, which are made in hollow reeds or holes in wood
made by wood boring insects. Unlike honeybees they are solitary;
every female is fertile and makes her own nest, and there are no
worker bees for these species. The bees are known for their skill
in pollination. The Table of Contents includes The mason-bees,
Experiments, Exchanging the nests, More enquiries into mason-bees,
The story of my cats, The red ants, Some reflections upon insect
psychology, Parasites, The theory of parasitism, The tribulations
of the mason-bee, and The leucopses.
"A unique look at the history, culture, tradition, and
environmental impact of honey
The Honey Trail "is a global travel narrative that looks at
different aspects of how honey and bees are being affected by
globalization, terrorism, deforestation, the global food trade, and
climate change. This unique book not only questions the state of
our environment and the impact it is having on bees and honey, it
also takes readers on an adventure across Yemeni deserts and Borneo
jungles, through the Mississippi Delta and Tasmania's rainforests,
over frozen Siberian snowscapes and ancient Turkish villages all in
search of the liquid gold known as honey.
Including fascinating insights such as: - A bee produces only a
teaspoon of honey in its lifetime - China is the world's largest
honey producer - Honey is only used as medicine in Borneo - There
are more than thirty-five mono-floral honeys in Tuscany.
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