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    Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
    Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
    Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
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    Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them

    Written by Paige Embry

    Narrated by Emily Durante

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 28, 2018
    ISBN9781977333902
    Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them

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    • 5/5
      A lovely, illuminating discussion of native bees fit for layman or student.
    • 4/5
      Beautifully illustrated and a very enjoyable and interesting read about bees native to the United States, their role in the ecosystem, and the opportunities and challenges they face.  
    • 4/5
      Beeing Paige EmbryBee lovers are set for life. There are so many native varieties and we know so very little about them, that anyone interested can devote a lifetime to learning, and teaching the rest of us. Pretty much anyone can add to the knowledge base, just by observing and reporting. Our Native Bees is a voyage of discovery rather than a science book. Lots of great photos right where you need them, too.Bees are not just hive residents; that’s a honeybee trait. And honeybees are European imports. Native bees seem to be mostly solitary and earth/hole dwellers. They come in a blizzard of colors and sizes, from smaller than grain of rice to a full inch. They have unique properties and habits, and have peculiarities and preferences in climate, foods and child rearing. There are four thousand native species of bee and 20,000 worldwide. Typically, we can name a handful at best.We depend on the Paige Embrys of the world to catalog it all, because bees are just not a zoological priority for scientists. Embry says bees have broken her out of her own introspective cocoon, and this book has forced her to fly and drive far to meet the bee-loving celebrities and experts. Her enthusiasm is genuine and infectious. She has learned a ton, and is sharing it. On the other hand, she is clearly obsessive.Bees are beset by all kinds of problems, not all of them manmade, though the manmade ones are truly unfortunate. Monocultures mean bees only get food while that one pant blooms. The rest of the year is a famine. Golf courses and manicured lawns are no help either, though the pesticide maker Syngenta is working with golf courses to line them with natural greenery outside the playing area. Pesticides don’t select to save bees, and we overspray something fierce. We need to just ease up and share the planet a little. It will pay huge dividends. The alternative is a well-known and predicted disaster for our food sources.And it turns out Melissa is Greek for honeybee.David Wineberg