Bees

Heroes of the Garden

by Tom Jackson

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Pub Date May 14 2021 | Archive Date May 14 2021

Amber Books Ltd | Amber Books

Arts & Photography | Home & Garden | Science

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Description

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.

Available Editions

EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781838860868
PRICE	£19.99 (GBP)
PAGES	224

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Nancy B, Reviewer

Thank you NetGalley, Tom Jackson and Amber Books Ltd for the ARC of Bees Heroes of the Garden. This is my personal review.
Bees Heroes of the Garden is a beautiful book. The photos are stunning. Seeing bees as up close as each photo is makes this book full of information and also a work of art.
The book is filled with information on bees. Bees are so necessary to all of us and this book gives information on how bees are so vital in our lives. This book is filled with everything how bees live together, communicate and so much more information. The different bees shown in the photos gives this book the everything a bee enthusiast will appreciate.

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Georgia L, Reviewer

I was provided with a free ARC of Bees courtesy of #netgalley, Tom Jackson and the publishers in exchange for an honest review.

Bees is an extensive collection of beautiful, intimate photos of bees throughout their lifetime. They are seen as solitary creatures collecting pollen to a working colony at work in the hive. It's amazing the level of detail the photographs collected from the individual particles of pollen collected on a coat to the colour and definition of different parts of their anatomy.

The pictures are colourful, descriptive and focussed. The excerpts that accompany many of them are insightful and informative providing just enough information for the layman to discover something new without being overloaded with scientific jargon. I particularly love the composition of the solitary bees out in the field.

This book would suit photography enthusiasts, as well as nature enthusiasts. It would suit an audience of preteens and older.