Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees and their flowers. Buchmann is an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and eleven books, including The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives, and The Forgotten Pollinators with Gary Paul Nabhan. Buchmann is a frequent guest on many public media venues including NPR's All Things Considered and Science Friday. Reviews of his books have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Discover magazines and other national publications. He is an engaging public speaker on topics of flowers, pollinators, and the natural world. His many awards include the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book.
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Preface Chapter 1. A Bees' Life Chapter 2. The Remarkable Bee Brain Chapter 3. Bees Living Together Chapter 4. What Bees Sense and Perceive Chapter 5. Bees and Flowers: A Love Story or Arms Races? Chapter 6. Finding Many Lovers Chapter 7. Bee Smart Chapter 8. Master Builders and Memory Chapter 9. Sleep and Dreaming in Bees Chapter 10. What do Bees Feel? Chapter 11. Self-Awareness, Consciousness, and Cognition Epilogue Appendix. Things We Can All Do to Help Pollinators Art Credits About the Author