Common Bees of Eastern North America

Common Bees of Eastern North America PDF Author: Olivia Messinger Carril
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175497
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
"Bees play an essential role in the pollination of native plants and agricultural crops across the globe. In North America alone there are more than 4,000 bee species. In spite of their abundance and diversity, there is no accessible field guide for the non-expert. This book will remedy that situation by providing a carefully crafted introduction to bee identification for eastern North America. No portable field guide could include coverage of the myriad species in the region, so the book concentrates on identifying bees at the genus level. It includes information on the 72 different genera that are found east of the Rockies"--