A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees (Paperback) by Dave Goulson

from Ma_Washigeri

Part cheerful memoir but with a solid core about bees and the wider ecology. I learnt a lot about bumblebees and by the end the cheerfulness was shadowed by the panic that is the collapse of the environment as we used to know it. I volunteered this summer and was trained to do the Bumblebee Conse...

from PDCRead

This is delightful little book about the bumblebee, written by Goulson, one of the few people who are experts on this amazing insect. In the book he explains about the different species that we have in this country, and outlines some of the research projects that he has been doing on the populati...

from Ma_Washigeri

Part cheerful memoir but with a solid core about bees and the wider ecology. I learnt a lot about bumblebees and by the end the cheerfulness was shadowed by the panic that is the collapse of the environment as we used to know it. I volunteered this summer and was trained to do the Bumblebee Conse...

from reading_fox

Engaging look at the UKs

from Eyejaybee

This is a marvellous book - informative yet also immensely entertaining. Dave Gouslon, professor of Biology at the universities of Southampton and then Stirling, has had a lifelong fascination with most forms of wildlife, but bumblebees in particular. I found the early chapters especially engagin...