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Following the wild bees
Thomas D. Seeley
Published
2016
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Written in
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | Thomas D. Seeley ; design and photographic assistance by Megan E. Denver ; line drawings by Margaret C. Nelson |
| Classifications | |
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| LC Classifications | SF537 .S44 2016 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xviii, 164 pages |
| Number of Pages | 164 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27208544M |
| ISBN 10 | 0691170266 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780691170268 |
| LC Control Number | 2015038694 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 933507490 |
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The book is the story of Seeley’s nearly forty years hunting for wild bee colonies, mostly in the forests of upstate New York. Bee lining, as it is often called, is a sport onto itself, one requiring. This site is a companion to Thomas Seeley's upcoming book Following the Wild Bees The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting coming this April from Princeton University Press.
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From smaller nests to higher openings, wild honey bees seem to prefer very different conditions from the closely clustered square boxes of traditional beekeeping, according to Cornell University biology professor Thomas Seeley, who details the behavior of wild honey bees in a new book called The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee.
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In his new book, Following the Wild Bees (Princeton University Press), biologist Thomas Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, vividly describes the history and science behind a lost pastime.The following is an excerpt from The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild by Thomas D.
Seeley. The honey bee’s process of choosing a dwelling place unfolds during colony reproduction (swarming), which occurs mainly in late spring and early summer (May–July) in the Ithaca area.
