Bees of the World
A Guide to Every Family
$55.33
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2023
Summary
When many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, insects that live in large, socially complex societies inside a hive with a single queen and thousands of workers. But this familiar bee is just one of more than 20,000 species of bees—and almost none of the others is anything like it. In Bees of the World, Laurence Packer, one of the world’s foremost experts on wild bees, celebrates the amazing diversity of bees—from size and appearance to n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691226620 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691226628 |
| Author: | Laurence Packer |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 878g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 177mm x 247mm |
| Series: | A Guide to Every Family |
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Critics Review
“Exploring bees though the eyes of melittologist Professor Laurence Packer in Bees of the World is an extravaganza of astounding photography and detailed accounts of the seven living species of bee known today.”—Ann Chilcott, BeeListener
“The book provides clear, accurate accounts of the seven bee families, presenting all the key information on generic bee characteristics, habits, and habitat, illustrated with lovely photographs that how bees in their natural habitats.” * Pest Magazine *
“This is a fine book, stacked with information, and it should be on the shelf of everyone who cherishes the natural world and its captivating diversity.”—David M. Gascoigne, Travels With Birds
“This is a delightful, handsome book to keep or give to another. It has already been tremendously useful to me (I’ll be citing it on many of my pages!), and I am sure it will be of great value and interest to many more bee enthusiasts all over the world.”—Amanda Williams, Buzz About Bees
“This is certainly no mere ‘coffee table book’ but I will thoroughly enjoy using spare moments to flick through the sumptuous photographs and expand my knowledge of these fascinating insects via the informative text.”—Adrian Knowles, British Journal of Entomology and Natural History
“The book has outstanding content at a very reasonable price for a printed hardcopy and should not be missing from any entomological, pollinator conservation or beekeeping library.” * European Journal of Entomology *
Laurence Packer
Laurence Packer is one of the world’s leading experts on wild bees and the author of Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them. He is Distinguished Research Professor of Melittology at York University in Toronto and founder of the Packer Lab at York, a central global hub for wild bee research that has one of the fastest-growing bee collections in the world, with specimens from more than 100 countries.
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