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Bee
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128 pages, Hardcover
First published April 28, 2010
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April 19, 2022
4.5 ⭐️
“Our most important pollinator, the ultimate synergist, an architect, spatial genius, winged apothecary, and the transmuter of the finest substance of nectar into honey.”
A visual closeup look at the honeybee and all of its body parts. 🐝
“Our most important pollinator, the ultimate synergist, an architect, spatial genius, winged apothecary, and the transmuter of the finest substance of nectar into honey.”
A visual closeup look at the honeybee and all of its body parts. 🐝
February 26, 2023
Stunning electron micrographs of all parts of the honeybee body.
January 5, 2011
60 black-and-white photos of honeybees at extremely close range. Using an electron microscope, Rose-Lynn Fisher captures eyes, wings, legs, antennae, and other body parts magnified from 10 to 5000 times.
The honeybee's body seems furry, but in fact it's covered in numerous hooks, spikes, and joints. At super-high resolution it looks like something completely mechanical. After tens of thousands of years of evolution, the honeybee is, in fact engineered for precise activities. Some of the more amazing photos detail hooks that join pairs of wings during flight, the bee's complex tongue and the minute scoop at the tip, and the complex eyes which include 6900 hexagonally-shaped lenses each.
Verlyn Klinkenborg's excellent introduction elaborates further, and each photo includes a short, informative caption.
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WHY I READ THIS BOOK: The winter is the beekeeper's best time to do research, and I'm doing my best to read up before the busy bee season arrives.
The honeybee's body seems furry, but in fact it's covered in numerous hooks, spikes, and joints. At super-high resolution it looks like something completely mechanical. After tens of thousands of years of evolution, the honeybee is, in fact engineered for precise activities. Some of the more amazing photos detail hooks that join pairs of wings during flight, the bee's complex tongue and the minute scoop at the tip, and the complex eyes which include 6900 hexagonally-shaped lenses each.
Verlyn Klinkenborg's excellent introduction elaborates further, and each photo includes a short, informative caption.
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WHY I READ THIS BOOK: The winter is the beekeeper's best time to do research, and I'm doing my best to read up before the busy bee season arrives.
December 27, 2011
2011 Book 126/100
Fabulous visual examination of honeybees. As another goodreader put it, this book is "60 black-and-white photos of honeybees at extremely close range. Using an electron microscope, Rose-Lynn Fisher captures eyes, wings, legs, antennae, and other body parts magnified from 10 to 5000 times." Totally intriguing in a way that I had no idea honeybees could be.
Fabulous visual examination of honeybees. As another goodreader put it, this book is "60 black-and-white photos of honeybees at extremely close range. Using an electron microscope, Rose-Lynn Fisher captures eyes, wings, legs, antennae, and other body parts magnified from 10 to 5000 times." Totally intriguing in a way that I had no idea honeybees could be.
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