epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Paul H. Williams [H. Williams, Paul, W. Thorp, Robbin, L. Richardson, Leif, R. Colla, Sheila]

MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERS Queen/worker mandible with a deep notch in front of the back tooth (contrast B. frigidus, B. flavifrons, B. mixtus), midleg basitarsus less than 3x longer than its greatest ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Jack Goldstein

A Great White Shark The Most Amazing Facts The film Jaws is in amazingly based on a real-life incident when four people were attacked by a shark off the coast ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Jack Goldstein

Collective Nouns Here are some rather unusual collective nouns... A shrewdness of apes A siege of bitterns A bellowing of bullfinches A gulp of cormorants A murder of crows A ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Richard Cannings

Northern Timberline: The Shrub Tundra The subalpine zone in northern British Columbia (north of Williston Lake) is characterized by tall willow and birch shrubs. Although these shrubs can be difficult ...

epub |eng | | Author:C. B. Williams [C. B. Williams]

FIG. 33 Track of a narrow stream of Monarch butterflies migrating to the south in September 1935, as reported by Mr. Carr. The insects throughout the day turned suddenly to ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Laurent Keller & Élisabeth Gordon

Devil’s gardens Ants take their protective role very seriously and also liberate their tree or shrub from any other plants that might steal its sunlight or hinder its development. This ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Cowles, Jillian.

The male pholcid spider (Physocyclus) has tiny ridges on his chelicerae. During courtship, he rubs these ridges with a hardened area of his pedipalp, thus stridulating and so signaling to ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-27 | Author:Hilary Kearney

TYPES OF HONEY The flavour, consistency, colour, smell, and medicinal properties of honey are dependent on the type of flower from which the honey is made. In most settings, bees ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jürgen Tautz

How bees find their way to the dancers The recruitment of foragers is an intricate behavioural chain that begins in the dark hive. It is here that scouts and foragers ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:L. Langstroth [Langstroth, L.]

I shall here state some conjectures which have occurred to me on this subject. Is it absolutely certain that bees can raise a queen from any egg or young larva ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-28 | Author:Grace Pundyk

epub |eng | | Author:David M. Phillips PhD

GRAPEVINE BEETLE Latin name: Pelidnota punctata Family: Scarabaeidae Identification: 1 inch long, yellow or tan, usually with 3 black spots on elytra and 2 on pronotum Distribution: Ontario to Florida, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael S. Engel

Flies are among the most ecologically varied of all insects, and some—such as the stalk-eyed flies (family Diopsidae), figured here among their relatives—are textbook examples of exaggerated male ornamentation resulting ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Bill Anderson

* * * 4https://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/tips_lists/bee-friendly-plants.html 5http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799 6 Zachary Huang, “ Varroa Mite Reproductive Biology,” Bee Culture 140, no. 10 (October 2012): 22. 7 M.A.Y. Oddie, B. Dahle, and P. Neumann, “Reduced ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wagner, David L.

RECOGNITION Much like preceding but paler or waxier in color with pale stripe running below spiracles on A1-A10 and black dots on abdomen lacking contrasting pale rings. Yellow abdominal tubercle ...