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The bees in your backyard, a guide to North America's bees, Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril

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The bees in your backyard, a guide to North America's bees, Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril

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eng

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bees in your backyard

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electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril

Sub title

a guide to North America's bees

Summary

<i>The Bees in Your Backyard</i> provides an engaging introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 stunning color photos of the bees living all around us-in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural history, including where they live, how they gather food, their role as pollinators, and even how to attract them to your own backyard. Ideal for amateur

Table Of Contents

""Cover ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""1 INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1 Is This a Bee?""; ""1.2 Bee Names""; ""1.3 The Bee Lifecycle""; ""1.4 Where Do Bees Live?""; ""1.5 Bee Sociality""; ""1.6 What Do Bees Eat?""; ""1.7 A Beeâ€?s Enemies""; ""1.8 A Beeâ€?s Body""; ""1.9 How to Study Bees""; ""1.10 Identifying Bees""; ""Key to the Chapters of this Book""; ""1.11 Appreciating Bees""; ""2 PROMOTING BEES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD""; ""2.1 Bees as Pollinators""; ""2.2 Providing Habitat""""2.3 Providing Food""""3 ANDRENIDAE""; ""Identification Tips""; ""3.1 Andreninae""; ""3.2 Protandrenini and Panurgini""; ""3.3 Perditini""; ""3.4 Calliopsis""; ""3.5 Oxaeinae""; ""4 COLLETIDAE""; ""Identification Tips""; ""4.1 Colletinae""; ""4.2 Hylaeus""; ""4.3 Diphaglossinae""; ""5 MELITTIDAE""; ""Identification Tips""; ""6 HALICTIDAE""; ""Identification Tips""; ""6.1 Agapostemon""; ""6.2 Halictus""; ""6.3 Lasioglossum""; ""6.4 Augochlorini""; ""6.5 Nomiinae""; ""6.6 Rophitinae""; ""7 MEGACHILIDAE""; ""Identification Tips""; ""7.1 Lithurginae""; ""7.2 Osmia""; ""7.3 Hoplitis""""7.4 Other Osmiini""""7.5 Anthidium""; ""7.6 Other Anthidiini""; ""7.7 Megachile""; ""8 APIDAE""; ""Identification Tips""; ""8.1 Xylocopa""; ""8.2 Ceratina""; ""8.3 Exomalopsini""; ""8.4 Emphorini""; ""8.5 Common Eucerini""; ""8.6 Peponapis and Xenoglossa""; ""8.7 Other Eucerini""; ""8.8 Anthophorini""; ""8.9 Centris""; ""8.10 Bombus""; ""8.11 Apis mellifera""; ""8.12 Euglossa""; ""9 POLLEN THIEVES""; ""Identification Tips""; ""9.1 Cuckoo Bees: Apidae""; ""9.2 Cuckoo Bees: Halictidae""; ""9.3 Cuckoo Bees: Megachilidae""; ""Appendix: Guide to the Pronunciation of Bee Names""; ""Index""""Photographic Acknowledgments""

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Guide to North America's bees

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