Keeping the bees : why all bees are at risk and what we can do to save them /
Laurence Packer.
- Harper Perennial trade pbk. ed.
- Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2014.
- 272 pages, [4] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Originally published in Canada by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in a hardcover edition: 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.
Buzz free: a world without bees -- The future of our food -- Honey, queens, hard-working workers and stings: misconceptions about bees -- A bee or not a bee? a difficult question to answer -- Two bees or not two bees? an even more difficult question to answer -- It's a bee's life -- The sociable bee -- Sex and death in bees -- Where the bee sucks, there hunt I -- Anti-bees -- What are we doing to the bees? -- The proverbial canaries in the coal mine -- Help the bees -- Epilogue.