Review: The life of bees and why they are so important
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
This is a very interesting book about bees, written in two sections. The first part tells what bees do from the point of view of a bee and her sister. I learned quite a bit about their daily life. I didn't realize that a drone has no stinger, and dies when it mates with the queen.The second half tells more scientific facts about bees, and their community.This is a nice book to introduce kids to bees so that they will realize how important they are to our ecosystem. We had a hive under an outbuilding when we moved here. The building inspection recommended that we call an exterminator. But we spent a couple of days and found a bee keeper that removed the hive and transported it to orchards in the east of our county. It was interesting to watch, and now I'm really glad we decided to try that. The bee keeper was found on Craigslist and was happy to have the bees. It turned out there were two hives and over 100,000 bees.