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From Dr Reese Halter comes a remarkable, concise account of the honeybees that have profoundly shaped our planet for the past 110 million years. They are the most important group of flower-visiting animals, pollinating more multi-billion-dollar crops and plants than any other living group. Since prehistoric times humans and honeybees have been inextricably linked. This book is rich with interesting and humbling facts: bees can count, they can vote, and honey has potent medicinal properties, able to work as an anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-fungal, antioxidant, even an antiseptic. The fate of the bees, whose numbers have been beleaguered most recently by colony collapse disorder, lies firmly in the hands of humankind. As such, it is our job to ensure their health, protect the habitats within which they live and communicate to others the vital link that human society shares with the remarkable honeybee.

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More than anyone I know, Dr. Reese Halter manifests the wise words of Senegalese poet Baba Dioum: to save nature, we must love it; to love it, we must understand it; to understand it, we must be taught. From understanding comes wonder, which Dr. Reese is a master at evoking. --David Perry, Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University, co-author of Forest Ecosystems --Professor David Perry, co-author of Forest Ecosystems Oregon State University (09/01/2009)

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