Category: Entomology

Beekeeping Questions and Answers.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hamilton, Illinois: Dadant & Sons, (1978). First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: es4186

Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), b&w photo. illus. endpapers, b&w photo. illus. throughout, 256 pp. Near Fine, with very light soiling to upper cover. From Preface: This book is very properly a child of The American Bee Journal. It was written over a period of several years by a variety of people under everchanging circumstances. The text is composed of questions submitted to The American Bee Journal and the answers we gave. Some of the questions are from our back files and appear in print for the first time and some of the answers have undergone canges as beekeeping knowledge, equipment,...
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Urban Entomology.

By: Ebeling, Walter.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Berkeley: University of California, Division of Agricultural Sciences, 1975.

Seller ID: 28319a

1st edition. Tall octavo, cloth, viii, 695 pp. Color photos, b&w photos, illus. Very Good in dust jacket.
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Concepts of Forest Entomology.

By: Graham, Kenneth.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, (1963). First Edition.

Seller ID: els4653

Octavo, turqoise cloth (hardcover), x + 388 pp. Former-owner's published review pasted to rear endpaper; otherwise, Very Good+, with neat former-owner stamp & light foxing (age darkened spotting); in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: This book is designed to give the reader -- student, research worker, field forester and forest manager -- a survey of the place of forest entomology in the field of forest protection, and to explain the theory on which current insect control practices are based. It provides a procedural basis for these practices, ...
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Beginning Beekeeping. Agricultural Extension Service, Buletin 151, June 1952.

By: Haynie, John D. and Milledge Murphey, Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gainesville, FL: Agricultural Extension Service, 1952.

Seller ID: bas84

Octavo, paperbound (b&w photo. illus. wrappers), 31 pp. Very Good, with edgewear that includes a small chip to lower cover. Contents: Bees in History; Races of Bees; The Colony; Nectar-Producing Plants; Beekeeping Equipment; Location of Apiary; How to Start with Bees; Apiary Operation; Enemies of Bees; Books and Journals. Honeybees are valuable to Florida farmers not only for the honey they produce but more so for their service in cross-pollinationg crop flowers...
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A History of Applied Entomology (Somewhat Anecdotal). With 51 Plates. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 84 (Whole Volume).

By: Howard, L. O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1930.

Seller ID: 10042gcs

Octavo, paperbound, uncut, 564 pp. Very Good+, with light wear.
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Bee Flies of the World: The Genera of the Family Bombyliidae.

By: Hull, Frank M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973.

Seller ID: 70606s

Quarto, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 687 pp. Near-Fine, with light soiling to page edges, in a chipped and worn dust jacket. Contains an idex, keys to the genera, check list of the more than 4,000 species; an extensive bibliography of nearly 1,600 titles by more than 500 authors; over 75 text figures, and a separate section of more than 1,000 line drawings. ÒThis work presents a comprehensive summary of the host records of these parasitic bee flies. It treats in full the classification of the more than 200 genera and subgenera so that workers all over the world may compare t...
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Stinging or Venomous Insects and Related Pests.

By: Koehler, P. G. and D. E. Short.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gainesville: Florida Cooperative Exension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, [1981].

Seller ID: 06055scs

Quarto, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, 10 pp. Photos. Very Good.
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Destructive and Useful Insects: Their Habits and Control. Revised by R. L. Metcalf.

By: Metcalf, C. L. and Flint, W. P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Fourth Edition.

Seller ID: 06067scs

Octavo, cloth, xii, 1087 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good.
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Florida Butterfly Gardening: A Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying the Butterflies of the Lower South. Includes Inquiry-Based Sceicne Activities. Illustrations by Diane Pierce.

By: Minno, Marc C. and Maria Minno.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1999).

Seller ID: 61025bd

Quarto, magenta cloth & tan boards (hardcover), xii + 210 pp. Near-Fine, with slight sunning to edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: This is a complete reference for Florida gardeners who wish to attract butteflies to their gardens with both host and nector plants. It provides sound information on how to identify butterflies (including skippers) as well as an understanding of their biology, behavior, life cycle, and Florida habitats Both useful and beautiful, it is the first book to cover, in full color, the adult, larval, and pupal stages and host plants ...
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The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture: An Encyclopedia Pertaining to Scientific and Practical Culture of Bees.

By: Root, A. I.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Medina, Ohio: The A. I. Root Company, (1962).

Seller ID: 9292gcs

Octavo, library binding (thick & study, cloth covered turquoise boards, hardcover), [vii] pp, 703 pp, xiv pp. Ex-libris, with numerals to spine and several stamps; otherwise, a very attractive copy with tight binding.
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Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe.

By: Spielman, Andrew and D'Antonio, Michael.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Hyperion, [2001]. First Edition, As Stated.

Seller ID: 00041s

Octavo, black cloth & grey board, (hardcover), xix, 247 pp. Fine, in a like dust jacket. ÒFrom its irritating whine to the itch of its bite, the mosquito is one of our least favorite creatures. Not merely a seasonal annoyance, this tiny insect delivers more illness to humanity than any other single living agent...Now, from a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter comes a lively and comprehensive portrait of the insect itself, its role in history, and its threat to mankind...They show us how mosquitoes breed, live, mate, and die, and introduce us to their enemies, b...
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Tropical Butterflies.

By: Werner, Alfred.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: A. A. Wyn, Inc., (1949).

Seller ID: bas28

Narrow octavo, color illus. boards (hardcover), paper labels, 23 color plates, 43 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear. Bright, extraordinary color plates of butterfies.
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Category: Entomology