What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight

All over the world, bee colonies are dwindling, but everyone can do something to help save the bees, from buying local honey to growing a bee-friendly garden.

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. What’s the Buzz? celebrates the magic of bees—from swarming to dancing to making honey—and encourages readers to do their part to keep the hives alive.

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What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight

All over the world, bee colonies are dwindling, but everyone can do something to help save the bees, from buying local honey to growing a bee-friendly garden.

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. What’s the Buzz? celebrates the magic of bees—from swarming to dancing to making honey—and encourages readers to do their part to keep the hives alive.

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What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight

What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight

by Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight

What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight

by Merrie-Ellen Wilcox

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Overview

All over the world, bee colonies are dwindling, but everyone can do something to help save the bees, from buying local honey to growing a bee-friendly garden.

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. What’s the Buzz? celebrates the magic of bees—from swarming to dancing to making honey—and encourages readers to do their part to keep the hives alive.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459809628
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Publication date: 09/22/2015
Series: Orca Footprints Series , #7
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 48
Lexile: 1130L (what's this?)
File size: 10 MB
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Merrie-Ellen Wilcox is a writer and editor whose first book for children, What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight, is part of the Orca Footprints series. She has two adult children and lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her husband and a busy Jack Russell.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: A World of Bees
  • Bees, Bees and More Bees
  • Bees Are Not Wasps!
  • A Bug’s Life
  • Social or Solitary?
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Mapping the World
  • Anything But Bumbling
  • Sweet Bees
Chapter Two: Bees at Work
  • The Birds and the Bees
  • A Happy Accident
  • It’s Good to Be Hairy
  • Thank You, Bees
  • Not Just Honey (Bees)
  • Even Fish Depend on Bees
Chapter Three: Life in the Hive
  • Old Friends
  • That’s a Lot of Bees!
  • Work, Work, Work
  • Royal Jelly
  • Swarm Alert!
  • Dancing Bees
  • What Beekeepers Do
  • Good Medicine
Chapter Four: Keeping the Bees in Flight
  • Bees Are Getting Stung
  • Wild Bees Too
  • Helping the Helpers
  • Bee-Friendly Kids
Resources
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Index
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