Keeping the bees : why all bees are at risk and what we can do to save them / Laurence Packer.

By: Packer, Laurence Dennis Marchant, 1955-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2014Edition: Harper Perennial trade pbk. edDescription: 272 pages, [4] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cmISBN: 9780062306463; 0062306464Subject(s): Bees | Bee culture | Pollination by bees
Contents:
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.
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: Thesis-Driven Scholarly Non-Fiction | Environment (AP)
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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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.

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