With full captions explaining how bees live, function communally, communicate, feed, and reproduce, Bees is an insightful examination in 150 outstanding color photographs of mankind\'s favorite insect.
A zoology graduate from the University of Bristol, he has also worked as a zookeeper and in safari parks in Zimbabwe..
As an author and contributor, he has worked on more than 60 books.
About author(s): Tom Jackson is a leading natural-history writer based in the United Kingdom.
Bees is an outstanding collection of photographs showing these fascinating insects in their natural habitat.
Bees can communicate many ways through the movement of their wings and bodies, most famously with the "waggle dance," where they make figure-eight circles to let other bees know the direction and distance of nectar.
A typical bee produces a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
Many bees today are domesticated, and beekeepers collect honey, beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly from hives for human use.
And bees produce honey, reputedly the food of the gods--a function of bees\' lifecycle, which humans have exploited for millennia.
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.
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.
With full captions explaining how bees live, function communally, communicate, feed, and reproduce, Bees is an insightful examination in 150 outstanding color photographs of mankind\'s favorite insect
