honeybee

Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of honeybees.

Simple text and photographs present the features and behavior of honey bees.

Describes the appearance, life cycle, social order, and activities of honeybees that live in the meadow.

Follows a scout honeybee through its day and provides facts about honeybees and their importance to humans.

Traces the natural history of bees and honey, focusing on how they have impacted the lives of humans from prehistory to the present.

Traces the history of honey bees, exploring the alchemy of bees, flowers, and honey, discussing the threats to the world's bee population, and describing how roughly a third of the average U.S. diet would disappear without honey bees.

Discusses the strange disappearance of honey bees from hives around the world beginning in 2006, a condition called colony collapse disorder, examines the efforts of scientists to discover the cause of the problem, and includes information about bees, their hives, and their honey.

Describes the physical characteristics of honeybees, where they are found, their behavior and social interactions, and a brief history of beekeeping.

Provides an introduction to bees, explaining why bees are farmed, looking at the anatomy and life cycles of bees, describing different breeds, and discussing fish as sources of honey and wax.

Examines colony collapse disorder (CCD) that could result in an agricultural crisis. Describes how industrial agriculture depends on bees to pollinate most fruits, nuts, and vegetables, and discusses why large numbers of bees are dying from CCD. Also considers solutions to the problem.