Dancing with Bees (eBook)

A Journey Back to Nature

Brigit Strawbridge Howard (Autor)

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2019
304 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-849-2 (ISBN)

Infos

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZETheSunday TimesBest Nature Writing Books 2020A naturalist's passionate dive into the lives of bees (of all stripes)-and the natural world in her own backyardBrigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realised she knew more about the French Revolution than she did about her native trees. And birds. And wildflowers. And bees. The thought stopped her-quite literally-in her tracks. But that day was also the start of a journey, one filled with silver birches and hairy-footed flower bees, skylarks, and rosebay willow herb, and the joy that comes with deepening one's relationship with place. Dancing with Bees is Strawbridge Howard's charming and eloquent account of a return to noticing, to rediscovering a perspective on the world that had somehow been lost to her for decades and to reconnecting with the natural world. With special care and attention to the plight of pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees, and solitary bees, and what we can do to help them, Strawbridge Howard shares fascinating details of the lives of flora and fauna that have filled her days with ever-increasing wonder and delight.

Inhalt

Preface: Realisations

Introduction: The Honey Trap

1. Spring on the Wing

2. A Nest of One's Own

3. What's in a Name?

4. The Boys Are Back in Town

5. Bees Behaving Badly

6. The Upside-Down Bird

7. The Cabin by the Stream

8. Cuckoo, Cuckoo

9. On Swarms and Stings

10. To Bee, or Not to Bee

11. Seeking the Great Yellow Bumblebee, Part 1

12. Seeking the Great Yellow Bumblebee, Part 2

13. On Bovey Heathfield

14. In Praise of Trees

15. Sedgehill, a Natural History

16. Cotton Weavers

17. Time for Tea

18. Evergreen

19. Amongst the Snowdrops

Epilogue. Reflections

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Selected Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2019
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: bee decline • bees • biodiversity • Bumblebees • climate change • conservation • honeybees • Memoir • Nature writing • pollinators • solitary bees
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-849-3 / 1603588493
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-849-2 / 9781603588492