The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries and simply...

Simple text and illustrations describe the physical characteristics, habits, and life cycle of the honey bee.

"A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind -- the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize...

Honeybees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees-an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies-is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest to learn more about these forgotten, yet fundamental, creatures. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Embry explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key...

Readers learn of actual human-bee encounters, information about bees, survival strategies, and attack statistics.

A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important advisor to the new Master, a former priest of fire.

To teach his daughter the value of books, a father leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.

Traces the life cycle of a honeybee from little larvae to fully grown, and includes information about honeybee anatomy, mating, bee keepers, and dangers to honeybees.

Bumblebee buzzes around bothering everyone until he comes to a gentle butterfly who understands that the busy bee is looking for someone to be his friend.