Orem Library

"Have you heard the buzz? Bees-the tiny insects that pollinate nearly all our fruits and vegetables-need our support. If you like to eat your fruits and vegetables (and even if you don't!), you should value our planet's bees. Yet, because of environmental pollution, loss of green spaces, and a general disregard for the well-being of insects, humans have caused the number of bees to plummet. In the past year, the managed honeybee population of the...

Offers advice and tips on raising bees in the backyard, considering topics such as equipment, common diseases and pests, different types of honey, and homemade products that include honey.

Examines the problems caused by an experiment that introduced the aggressive Africanized honey bee into the Americas.

A brilliant, timely and very Couplandesque novel about honey bees and the world we may soon live in. Once again, Douglas Coupland captures the spirit of a generation. In the near future bees are extinct until one autumn when five people are stung in different places around the world. This shared experience unites them in a way they never could have imagined.

Offers an insider view of a wild colony of honeybees, including close-up views of the queen, the cells, and bee eggs.

"You can't believe your eyes. But you can believe the numbers. The Photicular series, with four books published in the last five years, now has 2 million copies in print--and with every new title published the backlist rises to the occasion. After last year's success with Jungle (over 215,000 copies in print in just a few months), here comes Wild -- the book, and the idea, for which the series could have been invented. Wild captures eight endangered...

Bill Nye talks to special guest Queen Latifah about her other favorite queens ... bees. The lab kids go exploring at an insectorium and go digging for insect fossils.