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Just the bee’s knees: Botanical photographer produces loving showcase of our furry friends

By Mark Broatch
New Zealand Listener·
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Botanical photographer Craig P Burrows has produced a loving showcase of our furry honey-making friends, Apis mellifera. The book is an unbeatable marriage of beauty and brains, blending striking images of pollen-strewn flowers and pollinators in ultraviolet light – something like how bees might see the world – alongside diagrams and snappy text from writer Nick Worthington.

The Seduction of the Honeybee, by Craig P Burrows. Photo / Supplied
The Seduction of the Honeybee, by Craig P Burrows. Photo / Supplied

They explain the science of pollination, threats to the creatures that provide an estimated one in three bites of food we eat, and

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