Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis

Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee

Hattie Ellis

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most stud...

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