Welcome to Litsy!

This small volume contains so much crucial information and knowledge on bees. I loved it and have learned so much.

When I spotted a leafcutter bee provisioning a nest in our backyard last July, it felt like something special, but I didn't realize until I read this book how special hosting a native bee species truly is. I love how this book demonstrates not only why bees are important to the author personally but why they are---or should be---important to all of us. Strongly recommend. #bookspin for June @TheAromaofBooks

This is the cute reason I'm not getting much reading done right now. These four lunatics are only with us for another eight days before I take them back to the shelter for surgery, recovery, and to go up for adoption.

The other reason involves neighbors who are neither cute nor fun and who are prompting me to look at home listings in other neighborhoods. I suspect the drama with them will last longer than eight days.

Like some kind of B-list super power, my family can sense the moment I open my book, at which point they have something very timely to tell me, like a detail about Operation Barbarossa or the date of the first gas attack of WWI.

Between my lap being a playpen for our foster kittens and my general malaise following yesterday's dose 2, I'm not making much progress on my book. No complaints about the kittens, though. They are adorably dramatic in their play.

This is Science writing at its best; conversational, nuanced, and never boring. I came in with basically no knowledge, I thought all bees lived in hives and made honey (which I‘m pretty sure I learned from Winnie the Pooh), yet still managed to come away with with a basic understanding of the ways in which bees affect the evolution of ecosystems and agricultural systems. Hanson convinces you without ever proselytizing.

#funfact #dumbledore means bumble bee.

My professor was given this to review and then passed it along to me. Best part?!? Its NOT about honey bees!!

Fun fact: there are over 4,000 native species of bees to the U.S AND ~20,000 world wide. #teamnativebee #nonfiction #insecta

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in knowing a little bit more about the subject. Good book!
Please read my full review here:
TamaraTheReadingMermaid.weebly.com

Okay so it wasn't the book that I started off to read for this challenge but I did read 2 books in 3 days. I just need a little bit more time to finish the other one. I want to take my time with the Vampire Chronicles series. Anyway challenge complete! 😄✨🧨🎉
#TwoInThree @Samplergal

Full disclosure, I. Freaking. Love. Bees. I am of the firm belief that bees are the best thing (I mean, among the best things) on this planet. Yet until Buzz, I knew very little about them. They pollinate. They buzz. Occasionally, they sting. But that was it. And then this book comes along and tells me all kinds of things about bees and it's kind of opened a new world for me. I'll be outside looking for bees. 🐝 🐝 ♥ ♥

🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝