Nectar and pollen sources plants and related honey bee products
2010 413 pages Hardback S905 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