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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationshi... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Preface: a bee in the hand
- Introduction: the buzz about bees
- A vegetarian wasp
- The living vibrato
- Alone together
- A special relationship
- Where flowers bloom
- Of honeyguides and hominins
- Keeping Dumbledores
- Every third bite
- Empty nests
- A day in the sun
- Conclusion: the bee-loud glade.