"Backyard Bees Of North America" Bee Poster 24" x 36"

This is a high quality poster is every aspect. The images of the bees are sharp and crisp, the poster paper is thick and sturdy, and now that I know how many bees could be in my back yard, I sleep less! It is missing the "Murder Bee" however...

A terrible copy of an original poster. The poster stock was all wrinkled. The images were extremely blurry and you cannot read the text on the poster - the resolution is so poor. A complete piece of junk. This is a seller that is trying to rip you off - my opinion. I threw it in the garbage. I'm now going to have a beer and some ice cream in an attempt to recover from this disappointment.

Bees and bees! Easy to see and distinguish. Most are pretty big. And scary! I got this originally to help with identifying the bees in the yard, it’s easier to glance at a poster. Got another one as a (bad) joke on a good friend allergic to bees. Yuh, I know, pretty bad. But we both had a laugh. I’m sure she regifted it. If she could bring herself to touch it 😝

Great colors and organization. Educational yet very attractive.

This team of bee researchers also has a book titled The Bees in Your Backyard (and a Facebook page with the same name) which is arguably the very best work on the topic for amateur ento-folk, very thorough and accessible. But I digress... the poster... it has the bees grouped by related genera and sized to represent their size relative to one another - "5X their actual size". It contains great representative biodiversity for bee genera in North America including a number of kleptoparasitic/cuckoo bees grouped in the lower left. Beneath each bee photo is a common name and the genus it's from that would aid people new to the study of bees to research them further. At the bottom in small print are some natural history facts. The photos are very detailed and clear. To provide a sense of the size of the individual bees, in the top row, most shown are ~2 inches in length. Most on the poster are this size or larger. In many instances you can make out fine details such as individual pollen grains and their body hair. The only ones lacking this degree of detail are the totally dark bees (~10) and those that are really small (~4). I had mine covered in heavy laminate and have taken it to nature events to introduce the uninitiated to bee biodiversity. Paired with "Did you know there were so many different types of bees?" and pointing to the poster, it draws people over for conversation. For this reason, I consider it my most valuable tool in an educational booth about native bees. You can use it to teach: that most shown are solitary species as is the case in general, antennal size differences between the sexes // stingers aren't visible, but it's always interesting to folks to learn that only female bees can sting// that male bees lack pollen carrying structures // pollination dynamics- how most of their bodies are like little feather dusters passively picking up pollen vs. the cuckoo bee species that don't need all that hair and why // contrasting bumble bee and honey bee "pollen basket" structures with the solitary bees' use of specialized groups of hairs on either the hind legs or under the abdomen // how dry pollen carriage of solitary bees might lead to more pollen dispersal than with the corbiculate bee species that mix nectar into the pollen making for a stickier situation.I hope you have as much fun with it as I have.

This “Poster” is very poor quality. The paper is flimsy and coated with a thin film of plastic. The lettering is practically illegible: the common names are easier to make out, but the scientific names are unreadable. At the bottom edge is “Princeton University Press” copyright. I can’t imagine Princeton University selling such a poor quality item. It makes me wonder if this is a counterfeit. I do not recommend this product.

I take this eye-catching poster with me whenever I give a bee talk. I'm a honeybee beekeeper but have been studying native bees from the authors of The Bees In Your Backyard, who turned a selection of their photographs into this amazing poster. Each bee is 5 1/2x real size, so you can really grasp the diversity of shapes and sizes from a little Perdita Fairy Bee to a giant Xylocopa Carpenter Bee.Add this to your science classroom or just hang it on your bedroom wall (that's where mine is!)

First of all, the poster did not arrive when promised. It took almost a month for delivery. The concept of the poster was wonderful, but the printing was awful. You can not read most of the names of the bees because they are blurry beyond recognition.