The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them (Hardback)
Alison Benjamin (author), Brian McCallum (author)Published: 02/05/2019
Bees are our most loyal ally. These fascinating, enigmatic creatures are a key lynchpin in the working of our planet. Without them the landscape, as well as every aisle in our supermarkets would look radically different.
And we’re not just talking about honey bees.
There are more than 20,000 species of bee worldwide and only a handful make honey. Some live in colonies and others are solitary. We can all help protect them – and they desperately need protecting – but you can’t save what you don’t love. And you can’t love what you don’t know.
The Good Bee is a celebration of this most vital and mysterious of nature’s wizards. Here you’ll discover the complexities of bee behaviour – as well as the bits that still baffle us – the part they play in the natural world, their relationship with us throughout history, how they are coming under threat and what we can all do about it.
Beautifully produced, with hand-made illustrations throughout, it is a story for our times and a book to treasure.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781789290837
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 178 x 129 x 20 mm
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“A read as sweet as honey.”
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