Author: Sasaki,M.
Language: Japanese with English Summary
Year of publication: 2010
Number of pages: 413
Type of publication: Book
Publication location: BfD Library
Country: Japan
Region: Asia

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This gorgeous book presents a lifetime's study of honey bees by Masami Sasaki of Tamagawa University, Japan. Each page contains many perfect pictures of bee plants, foraging bees, flowers or fruit. There are also pictures of (a few) birds, honey, pollen grains, other insects, and of beekeeping and horticulture, with several thousand pictures in total. The main part of the book details the 647 plant species occurring in Japan that are utilised by bees for nectar, pollen, propolis or honeydew: 57% are indigenous to Japan. Also provided are floral calendars, colours of pollen, and scientific explanation of some topics such as pollination, the honey bee species present in Japan, and honey bee foraging. The text is in Japanese language, with an English summary. However all the plants are listed by their Latin names, together with common names in English, therefore this book can be of great interest for people interested in honey bee plants of any temperate zones. There is in existence no English language book that covers bee plants so extensively or as beautifully as this text.