SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROne mans quest to save the bumblebee...Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect our rarest bees.Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the shorthaired bumblebee is now extinct in the UK, but still exists in the wilds of New Zealand, descended from a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century.A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulsons passionate drive to reintroduce it to its native land and contains groundbreaking research into these curious creatures, historys relationship with the bumblebee, the disastrous effects intensive farming has had on our bee populations and the potential dangers if we are to continue down this path.

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: WNCN; Weight: 328 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 20

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