A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

✍ Scribed by Goulson, Dave

• Book ID: 109022842
• Publisher: Picador
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 295 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250048370

✦ Synopsis

**Following in the footsteps of great nature writers such as Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin, this fascinating book will alter the way we think about the bumblebee.
** Dave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire, starting with an increasingly exotic menagerie of pets. When his interest turned to the anatomical there were even some ill-fated experiments with taxidermy. But bees are where Goulson's true passion lies--the humble bumblebee in particular.
Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the descendants of a few pairs shipped over in the nineteenth century. Dave Goulson's passionate quest to reintroduce it to its native land is one of the highlights of a book that includes exclusive research into these mysterious creatures, history's relationship with the bumblebee, and advice on how to protect the bumblebee for future...