Bees - Heroes of the Garden (Hardcover)

Bees is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these fascinating insects in their natural habitat. Honey bees, bumblebees, mining bees, dwarf bees, carpenter, leafcutter and mason bees: bees come in many different types, with more than 16,000 species worldwide. The bees we are most familiar with, bumblebees and honey bees, live in colonies and play a major role in pollinating the crops, plants and flowers around us. And bees produce honey - reputedly the food of the gods - a function of bees' lifecycle, which humans have exploited for millennia. Many bees today are domesticated, and beekeepers collect honey, beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly from hives for human use. A typical bee produces a teaspoon of honey (about 5 grams) in her lifetime. Bees can communicate many ways through the movement of their wings and bodies - most famously, with the 'waggle dance', where they make figure-of- eight circles to let other bees know the direction and distance of nectar. With full captions explaining how bees live, function communally, communicate, feed and reproduce, Bees is an insightful examination in 190 outstanding colour photographs of mankind's favourite insect.

General

Imprint:	Amber Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Animals
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	Tom Jackson
Dimensions:	303 x 233 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With printed dust jacket
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-83886-086-8
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > Apiculture (beekeeping) Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Insects & spiders > General
LSN:	1-83886-086-X
Barcode:	9781838860868

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