Kiwi Bees have Tiny Knees

Description

Rachel Weston published the best-selling Bumblebees Have Smelly Feet after discovering bumblebees live underground and do “buzz pollination”. A couple of years later, while on her kiwifruit orchard watching bumbles and honey bees during pollination (and filling her iPhone with more bee photos!) she saw a small, black bee-like insect on a flower, which quickly flew away when a bustling bumblebee came in for landing. Looking more closely, she spotted another small black “bee” landing on a flower, zipping off again. Not knowing what these were, she made contact with bee expert, the late Dr Donovan, who told her about New Zealand’s native bees. So started a new bee journey…

Endorsements

“This is a beautiful book on our special native bees; it’s crammed full of fascinating information. I’m excited to meet a future generation of kids already pre-loaded with native bee facts!” ~ David Pattemore, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd

“Not only for kids! This is a book for everyone who is interested in New Zealand’s nature. Rachel Weston has achieved something that was long overdue: compiling all facts about native bees, beautifully wrapped in marvellous colours of words, photos and illustrations. You will discover new things from the bee’s world every time you look into this book.”~ Julia Kasper, Lead Curator Invertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reviews

WhatBookNext.com ~ This hardback book is beautifully produced and absolutely chocka with ngaro huruhuru – native bee facts, info bubbles, photos and illustrations.

At first the reader is introduced to these tiny creatures – their sizes, different groups and names. There are amazing close up photos of each type of bee, showing how distinct they are from each other.

We learn about their jobs in nature, their workload (for the Mama bees), and their families. The life cycle of these bees is illustrated within the plethora of full colour illustrations and photos, along with their senses, habitats and threats against them. We even meet stunning native bees from around the world.

With a How Can You Help? page, a full glossary, index, and over a dozen sources and online resources to check native bees out further, we can learn even more about our amazing ngaro huruhuru o Aotearoa / Native Bees of New Zealand.

I can’t help thinking of all the (flies) I’ve shooed away, when all along they could of been our tiny, friendly bees!

Excellent New Zealand Non-Fiction for every kind of library – not just schools!

Kiwi author Rachel Weston

Find out more about Bay of Plenty author Rachel Weston on her author page.