# Bees by Tom Jackson (Hardcover)

_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.

## Details

- **Price:** 18.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Amber Books
- **Type:** Tom Jackson
- **Tags:** All Books, Nature

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