epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:C. Marina Marchese

CHAPTER 10 Honeybees in Autumn: Preparing for Winter It was a lazy August afternoon during my first season of beekeeping. The kind of day where the sun seemed bear down ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark W. Moffett

13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Jeffrey A. Lockwood

A NEW KIND OF METAMORPHOSIS In his twenty-nine-page paper, Uvarov undertook what is called a taxonomic revision. In biology, the naming of species and their proper assignment to a particular ...

epub |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Carole Nelson Douglas [Douglas, Carole Nelson]

My Lollita: I am glad the gold comb in the shape of a crown is favorable to you in California, the place of gold lying on and inside the ground. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard A. Bradley

Calymmaria persica (Hentz, 1847) Plate 33 IDENTIFICATION This spider is pale yellow with dark brown or black markings. The cephalothorax has a thin black rim as well as black spots ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Richard E. Bonney & Malcolm T. Sanford

The Apicultural Calendar Beekeeper and bee activities follow what is called the apicultural calendar, usually divided into “active” and “inactive” times for the colony. In temperate lands, the four seasons ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-11 | Author:Richard E. Bonney

After swarming, the population may slowly decline as the intensity of conditions abates. At the end of this yearly cycle, the bees achieve a steady state of population for maintenance, ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Scott Richard Shaw [Shaw, Scott Richard]

FIGURE 7. 1. A xyelid sawfly, Pleroneura californica, a sure sign of spring in Wyoming, is a relict of an ancient insect family that arose during the Triassic period. You’ve ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Amy Stewart [Stewart, Amy]

SIZE: 15 mm FAMILY: Rhinotermitidae HABITAT: Found underground, in trees, or in attics and crawl spaces of wood structures. DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, China, Japan, Hawaii, South Africa, Sri Lanka, southeastern United ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-17 | Author:Jessica Walliser

If you are worried that dill may become invasive in your garden, consider planting a native variety of yampah (Perideridia species) instead. Dill’s culinary uses are many and it is ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-18 | Author:Malcolm T. Sanford [Sanford, Malcolm T.]

After swarming, the population may slowly decline as the intensity of conditions abates. At the end of this yearly cycle, the bees achieve a steady state of population for maintenance, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Luke Dixon [Dixon, Luke]

Bees on a queen excluder Uncapping The bees put a little wax cap on each cell when it is full of honey. To get the honey out you first need ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-11 | Author:Andrew Michaels [Michaels, Andrew]

There’s a really easy way to get your bees from the frames. The easiest method to take off bees from your frames is through blowing the bees off using a ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Leverton, Roy [Leverton, Roy]

In practice, the British weather makes it impossible, or at least pointless, to run a moth trap on a sizeable proportion of nights – it might be too cool, too ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-22 | Author:Amy Stewart [Stewart, Amy]

SIZE: 15 mm FAMILY: Rhinotermitidae HABITAT: Found underground, in trees, or in attics and crawl spaces of wood structures. DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, China, Japan, Hawaii, South Africa, Sri Lanka, southeastern United ...