What a Bee Knows

This book aims more at a general audience Lars Chittka's The Mind of Bee. While less technical, I found it to be a bit disorganized: I had a sense of "here's some cool research, here's some more, and did I tell about Chittka's work?" Possibly I got that feeling because I tend to talk about bees like that. Although Chittka's book is more focused on what it's like to do research, I thought it did a better job at conveying how much personality and spunk bees have, especially bumblebees.

Buchmann's book is chattier. It opens with a chapter making the case for why you should be interested in bees. In between it tells a lot of cool bee stories. Hopefully by the time you finished it, you'll be motivated to help bees, as it closes with an appendix about that.