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Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet

by Susan Brackney

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Susan Brackney knows about bees. Beekeeping is literally in her genes: in the 1930s, her great-grandparents, like many families in rural Indiana, kept beehives next to their large gardens and fruit orchards. In this charmingly illustrated little book, Brackney mixes bee facts with personal anecdotes about how she became a beekeeper, fought the city code, and charmed her grumpy neighbor by giving him presents of delicious honey. This hodgepodge of a bee book also includes recipes for baklava, beeswax candles, and honey energy bars. Plan Bee is more of a love letter to bees than a scientific study of them, but isn't that just what we gardeners and bee lovers want?
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Publisher Comments:

A fascinating guided tour through the history, folklore, and function of the endangered honeybee.

Featured recently in major national news stories because they are disappearing at an alarming rate, bees are the unsung-and absolutely essential- heroes of the food chain. Now they get their due in this delightfully illustrated, fact-filled book, courtesy of a professional beekeeper and nature writer who explores:

a Why honey bees are disappearing-and what we can do about it

a Who's who in the hive-the queen bee, the workers, and the drones

a The role of bees in our food system

a Swarming behavior-what it is, what it means, and how it's controlled

a Bees by the numbers-number of bees per hive, number of wing beats per second, and other fascinating facts

a Bees in folklore, literature, and pop culture

a And much more

Synopsis:

Honeybees get their due in this delightfully illustrated, fact-filled work that offers a guided tour through the history, folklore, and function of the hardest-working creatures on the planet.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780399534966
Subtitle:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet
Author:
Brackney, Susan
Publisher:
Perigee Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Bee culture
Subject:
Honeybee
Subject:
Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology
Subject:
Insects & Spiders
Copyright:
2009
Publication Date:
April 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8.20x5.54x.73 in. .70 lbs.
Age Level:
18-17
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