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Bees, Wasps, and Ants: The Indispensable Role of Hymenoptera in Gardens by Eric Grissell Publisher Comments Few insects are more important than bees, wasps, and ants. They maintain the garden's biological balance, fertilize vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and recycle nutrients within the soil. It's no exaggeration to say that a garden can't be understood... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck Publisher Comments The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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A World Without Bees by Allison Benjamin Publisher Comments From Los Angeles to London, from Slovenia to Taiwan, honeybees are dying. What is behind the catastrophe? Writers and beekeepers Benjamin and McCallum have traveled across Europe and North America investigating the plight of the honeybee, which is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies by Eric Mader Publisher Comments Protect the Pollinators That Help Feed the World Bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies, and some beetles pollinate more than 70 percent of flowering plants, but North America's native pollinators face multiple threats to their health and habitat. The... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bees: Nature's Little Wonders (David Suzuki Foundation Series) by Candace Savage Synopsis The bee may have a brain the size of a grass seed, but in its brief, five-week life it works as a brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. Bees: Nature's Little Wonders invites readers to take a new look at... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William Longgood Synopsis "An engaging collection of observations about honeybees and their activities."--Publishers... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply by Michael Schacker Publisher Comments On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet by Susan Brackney Publisher Comments A guided tour inside the world of bees Overtaxed and underrecognized-and now disappearing in alarming numbers- bees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, essential for the pollination of more than ninety of the crops we eat. The hardworking, humble... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet by Susan Brackney Staff Pick Susan Brackney knows about bees. Beekeeping is literally in her genes: in the 1930s, her great-grandparents, like many families in rural Indiana, kept beehives next to their large gardens and fruit orchards. In this charmingly illustrated little book... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Killer Bees: The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas by Mark L Winston Review Mark Winston has written an excellent introduction to these bees...It manages to include a history of the Africanized bee since its debut in Brazil in 1957, a good review of the scientific literature, and a clear prescription of what Winston thinks... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural History & Behavior of North American Beewolves by Howard Ensign Evans Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Honey Bee (Scientific American Library) by James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Humblebee Bumblebee: The Life Story of the Friendly Bumblebees & Their Use by the Backyard Gardener by Brian Griffin Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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