Following the wild bees
Subtitle: the craft and science of bee hunting
By: Thomas D. Seeley ; design and photographic assistance by Megan E. Denver ; line drawings by Margaret C. Nelson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780691170268
Subjects: Bee hunting
Description: Following the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today. Thomas Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, vividly describes the history and science behind this lost pastime and how anyone can do it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The bee box and other tools; title: Bee-hunting season; title: Establishing a beeline; title: Timing bees to estimate distance to home; title: Making moves down the beeline; title: Finding the bee tree; title: On not "taking up" the bee tree.