Henry Carter Hull

From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago, when a wasp first...

"A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat"--Amazon.com.

Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to a beehive in her magic school bus.

Describes how bees live together in colonies, how they make honey, find food, and communicate, and explains why bees are important to flowers and humans.

"A hungry bear? An angry bee? Only one will taste sweet victory! Who will it be?"--Provided by publisher.

When you think of a bee, what kind of bee do you picture? A fat, furry bumblebee? Or a hardworking honey bee? Lots of people think that anything that buzzes and has black and yellow stripes is a bee (not true) and that all bees sting (they don't). Whether they live alone or together, in a hive or in a hole in the ground, bees do some of the most important work on the planet: pollinating plants.

Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.

Captain Awesome is up against Miss Stinky Pinky in the second grade spelling bee.

Beekeeping is both a hobby and a practical business plan that many individuals have taken up in recent years as a viable way to culture a valuable natural resource and have fun in the process. In any given year, an effectively built beekeeping business can bring profits up to 500 percent of your investment according to numerous private beekeepers. The benefit of growing your own honey and selling it to local customers for between $3 and $6 a pound...