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The ABCs of California's Native Bees
Hardcover
General PhotographyInsects & Spiders
Publisher Price: $38.00
ISBN13: 9781597146814
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Los Angeles Times Best Science Books of 2025 * Los Angeles Times Best Book Club Pick of 2026 * Los Angeles Times Best Affordable Books for Plant Lovers of 2025 * 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner * 2026 Indie Reader Discovery Award Winner, Photography * 2026 IPPY Award Gold Medalist * 2026 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist * 2025 Foreword INDIES Bronze Medal, Environment & Ecology
Journey through the world of California native bees, one letter at a time.
Krystle Hickman's travels across wild landscapes reveal rare and elusive pollinators, each one meticulously photographed and arranged in a brilliant A-to-Z tribute. --Olivia Messinger Carril, coauthor of The Bees in Your Backyard
National Geographic Explorer Krystle Hickman has spent a decade capturing exquisitely detailed photographs of native bees and making exciting discoveries about their behavior in the field. In her debut book of natural history, she offers an intimate look at the daily habits of rare and overlooked native bees in California: those cloaked in green or black or red, that live alone in the ground or sleep inside flowers, that invade nests and pillage resources like infinitesimal conquerors, or that, unlike more generalist honeybees, are devoted exclusively to the pollen of a single type of flower. A committed conservationist and community scientist who knows all too well how precarious the wellbeing of these insects is, Hickman shares her adventures in local native plant gardens and throughout the far reaches of California to bring the beauty of such diverse ecosystems into wondrous bee's-eye view. Meant for all curious readers, this collection of bee stories--one for each letter of the alphabet, matching the first letter of a bee's scientific name--will leave you both wowed and compelled to help save these fascinating beings and the lands they call home.
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