bee culture

Presents an overview of the influence of honey bees and beekeeping on American history and culture, both ideologically and symbolically, including information on the European introduction of bees to the New World to the modern pollination fields of California.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily like a mother for ten years, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Introduces bees and beekeeping, covering such aspects as pollination, the making of honey, and beekeeping equipment and practices.

Describes the process of making honey, from a bee's collection of nectar to honey production on a beekeeper's farm.

"Discover the wonder of bees and how to protect them for generations to come"--.

Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

Introduces honeybees including their life cycle, habitat, and characteristics.

Written by two of the most well-known and respected experts in the beekeeping community, this is a new and updated edition of a popular reference title which contains everything the beginner, or even intermediate, beekeeper could need.

A disillusoned bee befriends a human.