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Edward Step FLS (11 November 1855 – 1931) was the author of many popular and specialist books on various aspects of nature. [1] His many works on botany, zoology and mycology were published between 1894 and (posthumously) 1941.
Hive society is divided into different kin groups with specific roles, named after flowers. For example, the Sage are priestesses, the Thistle are guardians, and the Teasel are wetnurses. Those bees who have individual personal names are also named after flowers. The kin at the bottom of the hive's social hierarchy, too despised to be named ...
The Dancing Bees: An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee, Harvest Books New York (1953), a translation of Aus dem Leben der Bienen, 5th revised edition, Springer Verlag; About Biology, Oliver & Boyd (1962), a translation of Du Und Das Leben; Animal Architecture (originally published as Tiere Als Baumeister.) New York, Helen and Kurt ...
The book was the authoritative text on the topic for over two centuries, before the invention of the moveable comb made it somewhat obsolete. The book is organized into ten chapters. It also contains a madrigal of Butler's: "The Queen bee's song". [1] The book sustained at least one further edition edited by Butler released in 1629.
The superfamily Apoidea is a major group (of over 30 000 species) within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees.
Bees range in size from tiny stingless bee species, whose workers are less than 2 millimeters (0.08 in) long, [5] to the leafcutter bee Megachile pluto, the largest species of bee, whose females can attain a length of 39 millimeters (1.54 in). Bees feed on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for ...
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Her books A Country Year and A Book of Bees were selected by The New York Times Book Review as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for The New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian and Time, [1] and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of The New York Times. [2] Sue Hubbell was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan.