The Bee Book: The Wonder of Bees – How to Protect them – Beekeeping Know-how

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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey, The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World – Holly Bishop, Atria 2016

If you want to find out more about bees, we’ve put together a selection of books (including picture books and honey bee books) that might be of interest… and for starters here are some ‘fun facts’ about bees to impress your friends and family:Bees are brilliant at building, super social creatures and along with other insects, are responsible for a third of every mouthful of food you eat! Children will be fascinated by the beautiful pictures and learn plenty of buzz-worthy fun facts in every chapter, covering types of bees, beehives, beekeeping, how they pollinate plants and make honey. Seeley who has been enraptured by bees since 1963, presents an authoritative and engaging account of why bees still fascinate him. The book should be of interests to students, educators, and professional biologists."—Norman A. Johnson, Evolution: Education and Outreach In recounting the daily brutality as well as the glimmers of beauty, this novel humanizes the terrifying refugee stories we read about in the news. Lefteri explores questions of trust and portrays what trauma and loss can do to individuals and their relationships. . . . A beautiful rumination on seeing what is right in front of us—both the negative and the positive.” – The Boston Globe An interesting read by an eminent honey bee scientist on the workings of a honey bee colony." – recommended by Karin Alton The Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year was Vectors in Kabul by Mary O’Donnell and Such A Pretty Face by Moira Fowley won the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year.

Using beautifully crafted arguments, Seeley challenges us to let bees be bees. Drawing from his life study of colonies in the wild, Seeley provides a timely reminder of all the amazing strategies that honey bees have evolved to survive on their own."—Marla Spivak, University of Minnesota Written for experts, beekeepers and biology buffs alike. Seeley’s fifth book on bees illuminates why wild honeybees across the planet are thriving while managed colonies are under threat."—Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell Chronicle Karin Alton is an entomologist working on evolution, behaviour and environment at The University of Sussex. She is founder of FlowerScapes Ltd a company that provides habitat creation and wildlife gardening solutions informed by the latest ecological research. FlowerScapes also supplies specialist bee and butterfly seed mixes for parks and gardens, road verges, amenity land and agricultural field margins. Seeley brings us dispatches from the cutting-edge scientific hive-mind exploring the complex behavioral, social, and survival dynamics of bee colonies."—Olivia Rutigliano, LitHubBees even play a key part in the wizarding world. Ron Weasley’s family are keen beekeepers, and Dumbledore takes his name from a traditional Dorsetshire word for bumblebee.

This is a remarkable and rewarding book, complementary to, yet in some respects going far beyond, its predecessors. It is highly recommended.” – Caryl P. Haskins, New York Times Book Review

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Seeley is truly a wonderful science writer, and one of the best at synthesizing information from honey bee studies conducted across the globe . . . His ability to communicate his science, and the science of others into common themes makes his books a pleasure to read for both academics and general readers alike."—Cory S. Sheffield, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada The queen bee is the mother of all the bees in the hive and lays up to 2000 eggs per day in the summer Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook in 1973, many thousands of novice and experienced beekeepers have relied on this book as the preferred single-volume guide to bee keeping.” – British Journal of Entomology and Natural History Honey bees have had a close relationship with humans for thousands of years, but they are endangered due to over-domestication. Seeley gives a view of many still living free in the wild, providing a model of their healthy lives. A must-read for anyone interested in the fascinating social behavior of this species, and for those who keep honey bees for fun or profit."—Bernd Heinrich, author of The Hot-Blooded Insects In a patch of forest near Ithaca, New York, Thomas Seeley has spent decades studying the behavior of honey bees that have thrived in the wild without human intrusion. Those feral bees have much to teach us about how to manage the struggling domesticated colonies that pollinate much of our crops. The Lives of Bees is an absorbing, meticulous, and important book, exploring an unseen corner of the natural world."—Hannah Nordhaus, author of The Beekeeper’s Lament