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I strategy this ebook as somebody who doesn’t know a lot in any respect about bees, solitary or in any other case, and want to study extra. Does this ebook work for me? Very a lot so.
As we might anticipate from a New Naturalist, this ebook is written by palpable consultants and as we might hope, on this quantity these consultants get their messages and data throughout very nicely. I’m now higher outfitted to grasp far more in regards to the lives of the bees that go to my backyard, and with this ebook on my cabinets I’ll all the time have the ability to get a useful recap when wanted.
I used to be notably eager to grasp extra in regards to the Ivy Bee which visits the Ivy on my backyard shed and my backyard fences in late summer time. I came upon so much about this comparatively newly arrived species so my curiosity will probably be enhanced, not lowered, subsequent autumn when, on heat sunny days, when the marginally disagreeable aroma of Ivy flowers is heavy within the air, the Ivy Bees are the obvious insect life as I sit wanting up for birds. Even now I’m wondering the place the bees nest, it could possibly’t be very far-off, however the description of their nesting websites doesn’t appear to suit something of which I’m conscious very shut by. Hmmm!
My ignorance of bees doesn’t finish with Ivy Bees – it’s just about absolute throughout species – and so I discovered so much from these 600 pages of textual content and illustrations. The illustrations, many pictures of stripy bugs, however a great vary of habitat pictures, graphs, maps and some tables and line drawings are of excellent high quality. I point out that as a result of I’ve criticised these points of some pretty latest New Naturalist volumes – issues appear to have improved significantly.
The duvet? I didn’t instantly ‘see’ it, however now I do. I’d give it 6/10.
Solitary Bees by Ted Benton and Nick Owens is printed by Harper Collins.
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