The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They've painted our landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities, and they have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment. The parallels between human and insect societies have been explored by countless sociobiologists. Traditional texts present stratified layers of knowledge where the reader excavates levels of biological organization, each building on the last. In this book, Robert E. Page, Jr., delves deep into the evolutionary history and the sociality of bees. He presents fundamental biology-not in layers, but wrapped around interesting themes and concepts, and in ways designed to explore and understand each concept. Page uses the social contract as a way to examine the complex social system of bee societies, a contract that has been written over millions of years of social evolution on the fabric of DNA. The book examines the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, bees as engineers of the environment, the evolution of sociality, the honey bee as a superorganism and how it evolves, and the mating behavior of the queen. The resulting book explores the ways human societies and bee colonies are similar-not from a common ancestry with shared genes for sociality, but from shared fundamentals of political philosophy.

'The Art of Bee Movie' explores the artistic vision upon which the film was built, featuring fascinating concept art, full-colour pastels, pencil sketches, models, maquettes and more.

"The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They've painted our landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities and have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment. The biology of the honey bee is one that reflects their role in transforming environments with their anatomical adaptations and a complex language that together function to exploit floral resources. A complex social system that includes a division of labour builds, defends, and provisions nests containing tens of thousands of individuals, only one of whom reproduces. Traditional biology texts present stratified layers of knowledge where the reader excavates levels of biological organization, each building on the last. This book presents fundamental biology, not in layers, but wrapped around interesting themes and concepts, and in ways designed to explore and understand each concept. It examines the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, bees as engineers of the environment, the evolution of sociality, the honey bee as a superorganism and how it evolves, and the mating behaviour of the queen"--

Based on a true story and inspired by a beloved beekeeper uniquely named Unkle Ray, this picture book blossoms with its educational twist on the importance of our busy little pollinators, honey bees! Throughout this charming story, young artists are colorfully engaged with honey bee knowledge. It's a delightful tale that visually nurtures honey bee awareness for all readers (young and old). The book also features additional perks for its readers like honey bee fun facts, 10 ways to help protect honey bees and even includes a glossary.

"The Fragile Bee" was exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA and is an outcry to the plight of the bees in relationship to the environment. Artist Nancy Macko established a garden for native bee-attracting plants so that she could document them throughout the year. The result was a series of photographs entitled "Botanical Portraits", which are written about an essay by museum director Kathleen Stewart Howe. In addition, a 12 x 36' billboard size mural, "Meadow", shot at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA, draws the viewer into the world of flora inhabited by the bees. Curator Stephen Nowlin writes about Macko's large scale installation, "Honey Teachings: In the Mother Tongue of the Bees", a 100 panel work depicting the reaction of the bees to the insecticides and pesticides on the plants they pollinate which causes them to experience confusion and disorientation - a form of memory loss and dementia. Contemporary art writer and curator Carole Ann Klonarides writes in depth about Macko's videos, "Lore of the Bee Priestess" and "Bee Stories" locating the work along the continuum of video art and discussing how Macko uses digital technologies as an art form integrating computer-generated images and audio experimentation with a sociopolitical message.