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Solitary Bees (Hardcover)
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Solitary Bees (Hardcover)
Series: Collins New Naturalist Library
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A completely up-to-date introduction to the most common group of
bees in Britain. Bees, for most people, mean honey or bumble bees,
but in fact these social species make up only a small proportion of
the species that live in Britain. Open your eyes to the so-called
‘solitary’ bees, and discover a wonderfully diverse population
– miners, leafcutters, carpenters and masons – many of which
can be found in your own back garden. Solitary bees come in a
variety of colours and sizes, with some as large as bumblebees and
some only a few millimetres long, and many are key pollinators for
our crops and wildflowers. This comprehensive book will tell the
story of how these bees live, reproduce and thrive: discover the
numerous strategies used by male bees to find females and persuade
them to mate; follow the females as they build their nests – or
in the case of ‘cuckoo’ species, sneak into the nests of their
neighbours – and watch as the new generation appears. Explore the
interactions between flowering plants and their bee visitors,
asking what the plants get from the relationship, as well as how
the bees select the plants they visit, and the ingenuity required
to extract pollen, nectar and other rewards. Finally, learn places
where bees flourish and what can be done to encourage them and
ensure they continue to pollinate our flowers and crops. Drawing on
all the latest research as well as the authors’ own observations
in the field, this timely New Naturalist gives a wonderful insight
into the complicated lives of solitary bees, and the complexity of
the behaviour and ecology of this remarkable group of insects.
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