Queenspotting : meet the remarkable queen bee and discover the drama at the heart of the hive ; includes 48 queenspotting challenges

Queenspotting Meet the remarkable queen bee and discover the drama at the heart of the hive ; includes 48 queenspotting challenges

Hilary Kearney

Book - 2019

"Though she rarely leaves the hive, the queen bee's days are marked by dramatic events, from battles for dominance in the virgin death match to aerial romance in a cloud of drones. Follow urban beekeeper and swarm catcher Hilary Kearney on a trip deep inside the golden, fragrant, buzzing hive for a vivid exploration of the queen bee's fascinating life and domain"--Page 4 of cover.

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2nd Floor 595.799/Kearney Due May 15, 2024
Subjects
Queen honeybees > Behavior.
Bees > Swarming.
Published
North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing [2019]
Language
English
Main Author
Hilary Kearney (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
127 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781635860375
  • How to use this book
  • Why find the queen?
  • Inside a bee colony
  • Queenspotting puzzels: easy
  • Intermediate
  • The life of a queen bee
  • Queenspotting puzzles: intermediate
  • Intermediate and advanced
  • Advanced
  • Hot to spot a queen.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Few will be able to resist beekeeper Kearney's master class in beekeeping, a delightful mixture of how-to tips, popular science trivia, and interactive challenges. Being able to find the queen bee, Kearney explains, is imperative for any beekeeper hoping to keep a hive healthy and productive. "If the original queen is not removed" after a new one hatches, the "worker bees will remain loyal to her and kill the newly installed one." Kearney covers the logistics of turning nectar into honey, the trick to tracking the queen's age (via a dab of bright paint on her back representing the last digit in her birth year), and the secret to creating those "bee beards" occasionally displayed by beekeepers (just apply some queen pheromones). As for the visual quizzes scattered throughout, the task is the same in each: find the queen in a photo of a horde of bees splayed across multiple pages. Solutions are provided, but, in a rather fiendish twist, Kearney waits until the end to offer tips. This all adds up to a spellbinding study of one of the world's most important insects, and one with appeal for kids (through the puzzle component) as well as adults. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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