TY - BOOK AU - O'Toole,Christopher AU - Ross,Edward TI - Bees: A Natural History SN - 9781770852082 U1 - 595.799 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Firefly Books KW - Bees KW - Pictorial works N1 - A Peter N. Nevraumont book; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - INSECTS & SPIDERS. Only recently have biologists discovered that human survival is inextricably linked to the survival of insects, specifically, bees. Today the 16-20,000 species of bee continue to play vital roles in human ecology. We survive only by grace of the life-sustaining network of bee-plant relationships. Bees immerses readers in the world of Apinae whose diversity of form and behaviour is eloquent testimony to the fine-tuning of natural selection ER -