{"product_id":"9781838860868","title":"Bees: heroes of the garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBees\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eAnd 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. \u003cbr\u003eWith full captions explaining how bees live, function communally, communicate, feed and reproduce, \u003ci\u003eBees\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful examination in 190 outstanding colour photographs of mankind’s favourite insect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amber Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55401329426775,"sku":"9781838860868","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/19593503482842.jpg?v=1791872722","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9781838860868","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}