Washoe County Library System

Bitsy Bee is all ready for her first day of school.

Introduces distinguishing characteristics, life cycles, and different types of bees.

A horde of bees and a young boy race around town wreaking havoc on the townspeople.

George and his friend Steve eat all of the honeycomb Betsy was going to use for her report on bees, so they build a beehive to make more.

The vital role of bees in human ecology is underlined by the estimate that every third mouthful of human food is dependent on the pollinating services of bees.

Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of honeybees.

"Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use...

A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.

Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life.