A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
May. 1st, 2010 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI read A Book of Bees, because a friend who is a beekeeper lent it to me. (Hopefully I'm going to get out and see his hives this month)
I found reading this book very soothing. The book is a description of the normal tasks of beekeeper, mixed in with observations about the countryside where the author lives, and bits of older writings about bees.
Most of what I've read about bees before has been from a Behavioral Ecology perspective, about the fact that bees are haplodiploid, and how that makes for very interesting kin conflict. So it was nice to see bees from a more practical point of view.
My one problem with the book is that it uses "he" as generic pronoun.
I found reading this book very soothing. The book is a description of the normal tasks of beekeeper, mixed in with observations about the countryside where the author lives, and bits of older writings about bees.
Most of what I've read about bees before has been from a Behavioral Ecology perspective, about the fact that bees are haplodiploid, and how that makes for very interesting kin conflict. So it was nice to see bees from a more practical point of view.
My one problem with the book is that it uses "he" as generic pronoun.
