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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees | Thor Hanson
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Pickpick

This small volume contains so much crucial information and knowledge on bees. I loved it and have learned so much.

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ImperfectCJ
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Pickpick

When I spotted a leafcutter bee provisioning a nest in our backyard last July, it felt like something special, but I didn't realize until I read this book how special hosting a native bee species truly is. I love how this book demonstrates not only why bees are important to the author personally but why they are---or should be---important to all of us. Strongly recommend. #bookspin for June @TheAromaofBooks

ValerieAndBooks I will have to check this out! Did you know that this week is National Pollinator Week 🐝 ? 3y
ImperfectCJ @ValerieAndBooks I feel like I knew this at some point, but I'm still not sure when the week begins and ends. The fact that I unintentionally finished two books about bees during National Pollinator Week is a pretty fun coincidence! 3y
TheAromaofBooks Oooo sounds interesting! I love watching bees!! The guy who owns the greenhouse where I work also raises bees and one of his passions is creating pollinator gardens and raising native plants. I love how there are so many ways that we can help bees and other pollinators just by the way that we care for our own yards and gardens! 3y
SamAnne I grew up withhoney bee hives and love them. But I've not taken up beekeeping myself...it's a bit of work and I have enough on my hands with a border collies, 7 hens and a sourdough starter. But I do plant lots of pollinator friendly plants and use no chemicals. But we did get mason bees this year! We have a little mason bee house where they hatch in tubes plugged with mud, and come out in early spring. And they are cute. 3y
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ImperfectCJ
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This is the cute reason I'm not getting much reading done right now. These four lunatics are only with us for another eight days before I take them back to the shelter for surgery, recovery, and to go up for adoption.

The other reason involves neighbors who are neither cute nor fun and who are prompting me to look at home listings in other neighborhoods. I suspect the drama with them will last longer than eight days.

Catsandbooks Gah! I love kittens! What cuties! 4y
ImperfectCJ @Catsandbooks They really are ridiculously cute. And such huge personalities already! This is our first batch of fosters, and we'll have to see how tough it is to drop them off next week. 4y
Catsandbooks @ImperfectCJ awww!! Good luck! It will definitely be bittersweet! I really want to foster pets but don't have the space in our current house. Hopefully in a year or two when we move 🤞🏼 4y
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Jas16 Adorable kittens! And I am so sorry about your neighbors. 4y
Bookwormjillk 😻😻😻😻sorry about the neighbors though 4y
Ruthiella Cats are way easier to deal with than humans, for sure. 4y
JamieArc That face! 4y
dylanisreading Ugh to poopy neighbors. The kittens are adorable. 4y
Gaylagal2 They're so adorable! 😻 Neighbors like yours are the reason why I like animals over people...lol. 😎 4y
Tamra Yay for kittens and boo for obnoxious neighbors. You shouldn‘t have to deal with that. 4y
Gissy 😻😻😻 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Too cute!! There are rental homes on my street and I always worry about getting bad neighbors. I‘m sorry you are having problems 😓 4y
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ImperfectCJ
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Like some kind of B-list super power, my family can sense the moment I open my book, at which point they have something very timely to tell me, like a detail about Operation Barbarossa or the date of the first gas attack of WWI.

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Ooh, my husband has been perfecting this super power as well. 4y
Bookwormjillk Mine too! Very important to tell me what they read in the newspaper! 4y
dylanisreading Can relate! In my house, my dogs and my husband have this superpower. 4y
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ImperfectCJ
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Between my lap being a playpen for our foster kittens and my general malaise following yesterday's dose 2, I'm not making much progress on my book. No complaints about the kittens, though. They are adorably dramatic in their play.

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 4y
wanderinglynn So cute! ❤️🐱 4y
Tamra 💜 4y
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BookmarkTavern How cute! 4y
Soubhiville How fun! 4y
Liz_M Happy second dose day! And kittens make everything better (until they break/wreck something) 😁 4y
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Pickpick

This is Science writing at its best; conversational, nuanced, and never boring. I came in with basically no knowledge, I thought all bees lived in hives and made honey (which I‘m pretty sure I learned from Winnie the Pooh), yet still managed to come away with with a basic understanding of the ways in which bees affect the evolution of ecosystems and agricultural systems. Hanson convinces you without ever proselytizing.

catiewithac Stacked! 5y
Tamra Intriguing! 5y
GypsyKat This sounds awesome!🐝🐝🐝 5y
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Conservio
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#funfact #dumbledore means bumble bee.

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Conservio
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My professor was given this to review and then passed it along to me. Best part?!? Its NOT about honey bees!!

Fun fact: there are over 4,000 native species of bees to the U.S AND ~20,000 world wide. #teamnativebee #nonfiction #insecta

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BeansPage
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Pickpick

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in knowing a little bit more about the subject. Good book!
Please read my full review here:
TamaraTheReadingMermaid.weebly.com

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BeansPage
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Okay so it wasn't the book that I started off to read for this challenge but I did read 2 books in 3 days. I just need a little bit more time to finish the other one. I want to take my time with the Vampire Chronicles series. Anyway challenge complete! 😄✨🧨🎉
#TwoInThree @Samplergal

Samplergal Yippee! Congratulations! 🎈🎊🎉 6y
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Pickpick

Full disclosure, I. Freaking. Love. Bees. I am of the firm belief that bees are the best thing (I mean, among the best things) on this planet. Yet until Buzz, I knew very little about them. They pollinate. They buzz. Occasionally, they sting. But that was it. And then this book comes along and tells me all kinds of things about bees and it's kind of opened a new world for me. I'll be outside looking for bees. 🐝 🐝 ♥ ♥

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