Our Native Bees

North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them

De: Paige Embry

Narrado por: Emily Durante

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees - an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies - is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest to learn more about these forgotten, yet fundamental, creatures.

Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Embry explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture. The people and stories are compelling: Embry goes on a bee hunt with the world expert on the likely extinct Franklin's bumble bee, raises blue orchard bees in her refrigerator, and learns about an organization that turns the out-of-play areas in golf courses into pollinator habitats.

For bee enthusiasts and anyone who us curious about the natural world, Our Native Bees is an illuminating exploration of the pollinators essential to our survival.

©2018 Paige Embry (P)2018 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Designed to educate everyone from bee and honey enthusiasts to amateur gardeners and agricultural professionals, Embry's captivating profiles of just a few of the myriad native bee species and the dedicated individuals and institutions committed to their survival are as entertaining as they are enlightening." (Booklist)

Great information!

This book offers a wealth of knowledge on bees, I have learned so much! Thank you

Buzzzz

Very engaging and so glad that she discusses the Franklin’s Bumblebee whose habitat surrounds where I currently live. Inspiration to find Franky!

My 8yo falls asleep to this book daily

Paige takes us all on an adventure with her as she learns what she and her neighbors didn't know about Americas bees. This is a fun, frequently humorous and light-hearted journey into the world of the citizen scientist. As homeschoolers, we found it to be a perfect view of the world around around us chocked full of elementary facts about life science and learning science. It's written for non-scientific readers.

Mind expanding!

Great overview of the various types of bees most of us have no idea exist, let alone surround us every day

Inspiring

Full of overlooked information and neglected neighbors/pollinators. Worth having in my collection. Looking forward to finding the print version