Pam Phillips reviewed What a Bee Knows by Stephen L. Buchmann
Makes the case for why bees deserve our respect and assistance
4 stars
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.
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.