Bee books

Book Review: Thinking like a bee

Have a read of my latest book review about two amazing and inspiring books: Stephen Buchmann’s What a Bee Knows and Lars Chittka’s The Mind of a Bee. To give you a little teaser, here is a snippet from my review:“These two books offer a compelling portrait of bees as creatures of remarkable complexity and intelligence. …

Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming

Book Review: Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming

Have a read of my book review about an essential and inspiring book, entitled Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming (2023) edited by Peter Kevan and D. Susan Willis Chan, published in Community Ecology (Springer Nature).  To give you a little teaser, here is a snippet from my review: “The primary strength of this book lies …

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Book Review: Pollinators & pollination

📚 Have a read of my book review about an inspiring and thought-provoking book, entitled Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society (2021) by Prof. Jeff Ollerton, published in Community Ecology (Springer Nature).  As a teaser, here is a snippet from my review: “By learning about the most important research and field experience of a 30-year-long career, …

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The Mind of a Bee

📚 A snippet from a book about the astonishing cognitive abilities of bee: “We humans have our senses of sight, hearing, smell, and taste neatly packaged into completely different sense organs (and we can’t additionally taste with our feet). This is clearly different in bees, whose antennae are as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife! …