"Of the more than 49,000 species of spider worldwide, some 4,000 are in North America. Spiders of North America explores more than 500 of the most common and interesting spiders found in this region of the world. This richly illustrated guide begins with an overview of spiders--what they are exactly, how they can be found, how they develop, and why they are important. The book features information on all the major spider guilds: sensing web weavers,...

Love. Politics. Parasitic manipulation. Julia Hernandez left her husband, shot a real-estate developer out to gentrify Brooklyn, and then vanished without a trace. Well, perhaps one or two traces were left...With different personal and consumption habits, Julia has slipped out of the world she knew and into the Simulacrum-a place between the cracks of our existence from which human history is both guided and thwarted by the conflict between a species...

A handbook to beekeeping, featuring advice for: setting up and caring for your own colonies ; the best location to place your new bee colonies ; the most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees ; swarm control ; using top bar hives ; harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey ; bee problems and treatments ; information for urban bees and beekeepers ; using your smoker the right way ; better pest management ; providing...

In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioral ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance. Wasps get a bad rap, but there may no other earthly creature guarding so many undiscovered...