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Agrovoc APIMONDIA by arrangement with FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
published by
Apimondia, Rome, Italy (1992 Second Edition) 798 pages. Paperback.
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All language versions except Arabic are available from: APIMONDIA, Corso Vittorio Emanuele Il,
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101, 1-00186 Rome, Italy. The Arabic version is available directly from FAO, Viale delle Terme di
Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Price USS120 for USS10 mailing
each monolingual volume plus
charges. USS580 for the complete AGROVOC thesaurus (5 version volumes) plus USS30 mailing
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This is a multilingual agricultural thesaurus to assist with indexing and retrieval of agricultural information. It covers all agricultural sectors including plant and animal protection, primary agricultural products, forestry, fisheries. human nutrition, rural development and the effects of agriculture on the environment. This new edition is available in six language versions: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Cette publication est accessible en francaise. Esta publication es disponible en espafiola.
The hot-blooded insects: strategies and mechanisms of thermoregulation by Bernd
Heinrich
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (1993) 601 pages. Hardback.
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This book explodes the myth that bees (and all other insects) are cold-blooded animals which cannot regulate their body temperature. The author states “I've come to believe that certain insects are among the most highly evolved organisms on earth with respect to mastering temperature as a variable of the physical environment”.
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For example, a large animal such as a human weighing 65 kg would register no measurable temperature increase on stepping from shade to sunshine for several minutes. However, when a 10 mg insect lands in the sun, it can heat up by 10°C in only 10 seconds! Therefore the thermal environment faced by insects is potentially much more severe than it is for us or any other vertebrate animal, and insects have had to evolve sophisticated ways of dealing with this.
Bernd Heinrich discusses the thermoregulation of many other insects in addition to bees It is a highly academic work (and also very expensive}, written in an articulate and readable style.
One of Bernd Heinrich's drawings which add considerably to the text of Hot-blooded insects. This one shows a carpenter bee in flight. The thorax is naked or thinly insulated, and the very large, naked head facing the airstream during forward flight
provides a large area for rapid, convective heat loss.
COMING SHORTLY... Ethiopian honeybee flora: some 500 common herbs, shrubs and trees by Reinhard Fichtl and Admasu Addi
Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim, Germany (1994) 550 pages and 600 colour photographs. Paperback. Available in October from
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this book about 400 common herbs and shrubs and 100 common trees are described, with full colour, showing part of the rich honeybee flora of Ethiopia. Besides the descriptions of plants and their value to the bees, much emphasis is given to the cultural, traditional and medicinal value of these In
honey plants.
The book is intended for farmers and it will also provide beekeeping and extension personnel with a vital source of pictorial and factual data on nectar- and pollen-producing
plants. This is the first book describing honey plants of Africa.
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