The World of Bees
Edition: Grey Arrow Edition
Series: G19
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Printed in Great Britain by The Anchor Press, Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Apiology,; Melittology
Genres: Adult Non-Fiction
First sentence: "My interest in bees was alive when I was very young."
Description: (from the inside flap) 

  "Bees have been a source of interest since ancient times.  Of the innumerable books written about them, however, most have been concerned with the social bees - mainly the hive or honey bees - which represent only a small fraction of the 10,000 or so known species in the world.  In this book Mr Nixon has tried to give the reader a glimpse of the whole world of bees in all their intriguing diversity of habitat and behaviour.  Solitary bees, bumble-bees, stingless bees, as well as the honey-bee, are seen against a background of what is common to the lives of them all."
Notes: Illustrations by Arthur Smith
Table of contents: pagenum: 11
label: 1
class: section
title: What is a Bee?; pagenum: 24
title: One Kind of Bee, or Many?
class: part
label: 2; pagenum: 31
title: From Egg to Adult
class: part
label: 3; pagenum: 37
title: Stings, Nectar and Pollen-baskets
class: part
label: 4; pagenum: 49
label: 5
class: part
title: Bees's Nests and what the are made of; pagenum: 54
label: 6
class: part
title: The Habits of Bees: Miners and Carpenters; pagenum: 64
title: The Habits of Bees (continued): Masons and Plasterers
class: part
label: 7; pagenum: 71
label: 8
class: part
title: Leaf-Cutter Bees; pagenum: 78
label: 9
class: part
title: The Social Bees: Apis, the Honey-Bee; pagenum: 91
label: 10
class: part
title: The Social Bees (continued): the Bumble-Bee; pagenum: 99
title: The Social Bees (continued): Bees without Stings
class: part
label: 11; pagenum: 105
title: The Beginning of a Society
class: part
label: 12; pagenum: 107
title: The Cuckoo Bumble-bee
class: part
label: 13; pagenum: 114
label: 14
class: part
title: More Cuckoos; pagenum: 121
title: The Enemies of Bees
class: part
label: 15; pagenum: 129
label: 16
class: part
title: Are Bees Aggressive Insects?; pagenum: 135
title: Pairing and Fertilization
class: part
label: 17; pagenum: 143
title: Are Bees more Intelligent than other Insects?
class: part
label: 18; pagenum: 152
title: The Senses of Bees
class: part
label: 19; pagenum: 161
title: The Flight of Bees
class: part
label: 20; pagenum: 167
label: 21
class: part
title: Bees and Flowers; pagenum: 176
title: Bees as Producers of Honey
class: part
label: 22; pagenum: 182
title: How to Study Bees
class: part
label: 23; pagenum: 189
class: part
label: Index