Comfrey and Smelly feet, Ketchup and Turkish Immigrants and Does Size Matter? are just three of the intriguing chapter titles in Dave Goulson's popular book about bumblebees: A Sting in the Tale.
The book, which was published in paperback this month following its successful debut in hardback last year, is both enormously informative and hugely entertaining.
Founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Goulson describes how he first became interested in bumblebees as a young boy growing up in Shropshire. Childhood experiments in taxidermy and insect collection led to a career as a professor of biology - a job that has allowed him to earn money while following his passion.
Full of fascinating facts about bumblebees, the book also has a serious message about the negative effects of intensive farming and the industrial breeding of bees as pollinators.
If you want to learn more about Bumblebees this is the book for you.
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