By Allison Wallace
ISBN-10: 1400062713
ISBN-13: 9781400062713
–from A Keeper of Bees
Allison Wallace’s devotion to honeybees and their awesome, intensely lived lives begun years in the past, whilst she was once dwelling in a cabin within the North Carolina woods. Ever for the reason that then, anyplace she has known as domestic, Wallace has stored corporation with bees. Now she provides us the honeybee in all its glory, dancing “the nice, by no means totally knowable ecological dance,” striving like different creatures and vegetation to be all it may be in its brief existence.
With a philosopher’s conception and a scientist’s wisdom, Wallace interweaves the proof of honeybee biology with reflections on hope, intimacy, paintings, evolution, reminiscence, and residential. She stocks the fun of in detail staring at millions of busy bees cozily ensconced of their brilliantly designed, completely weatherproofed hive. She muses at the girl employees’ unceasing task, and at the male drones’ idleness as every one awaits his acrobatic midair mating with the queen, by means of his rapid dying. She marvels on the cosseted queen, upon whom the way forward for the hive depends.
From the Hardcover edition.
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