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This book will help you enhance youe self-sufficient lifestyle and make beekeeping a reality.

Describes the activities within a honey bee hive.

Introduces readers to the world of bees, discussing what they need to live and how they behave.

Enter a beehive - one part nursery, one part honey factory, one part queen bee inner sanctum - then fly and deserts where wildflowers bloom. It's fascinating - and delicious! Hailed fro their hard work and harmonious society, bees make possible life on earth as we know it. This fundamental link between bees and humans reaches beyond biology to our environment and our culture: bees have long played important roles in art, religion, leterture, and medicine...

Introduces bees and beekeeping, covering such aspects as pollination, the making of honey, and beekeeping equipment and practices.

Details the characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the Africanized honeybee, sometimes referred to as the killer bee.

"It's good to be a queen bee! The queen bee lets the other bees in the hive feed and care for her. What does she do? She lays eggs! A queen bee can lay more than 1,000 eggs a day! Take a look at the social structure inside a bee hive and the important role the queen and the female worker bees play"--

Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a fieldtrip to a beehive in her magic school bus.

Describes the appearance, life cycle, activities, and social habits of bees, and provides information on beekeeping.