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photos of honeybees at extremely close range, Using an electron microscope, RoseLynn Fisher captures eyes, wings, legs, antennae, and other body parts magnified fromtotimes,
The honeybee's body seems furry, but in fact it's covered in numerous hooks, spikes, and joints, At superhigh resolution it looks like something completely mechanical, After tens of thousands of years of evolution, the honeybee is, in fact engineered for precise activities, Some of the more amazing photos detail hooks that join pairs of wings during flight, the bee's complex tongue and the minute scoop at the tip, and the complex eyes which includehexagonallyshaped lenses each.
Verlyn Klinkenborg's excellent introduction elaborates further, and each photo includes a short, informative caption,
WHY I READ THIS BOOK: The winter is the beekeeper's best time to do research, and I'm doing my best to read up before the busy bee season arrives.
Stunning electron micrographs of all parts of the honeybee body,.
“Our most important pollinator, the ultimate synergist, an architect, spatial genius, winged apothecary, and the transmuter of the finest substance of nectar into honey, ”
A visual closeup look at the honeybee and all of its body parts,Book/
Fabulous visual examination of honeybees, As another goodreader put it, this book is "blackandwhite photos of honeybees at extremely close range, Using an electron microscope, RoseLynn Fisher captures eyes, wings, legs, antennae, and other body parts magnified fromtotimes, " Totally intriguing in a way that I had no idea honeybees could be,
Of the ten million or so different species of insects on our planet, none is more fascinating than the honeybee, One of the oldest forms of animal life still in existence from the Neolithic Age, bees have been worshipped and mythologized since the beginning of human history.
Known popularly for their industriousness "as busy as a bee" and highly valued for their role in agricultural pollination every third bite we take depends on them, bees are now kept by a quartermillion beekeepers in the United States alone, and millions more around the world.
Honeybees were the first creatures examined by seventeenthcentury scientists whose primitive microscopes suggested a complex system of construction, Now, magnified hundreds to thousands of times with a latest generation highresolution scanning electron microscope, honeybees appear as architectural masterpiecesan elegant fusion of form and function,
Melding art and science, photographer RoseLynn Fisher puts this modern tool to
creative use in order to reveal themicroscopic majesty of these natural wonders, BEE presents sixty astonishing photographs of honeybee anatomy in magnifications ranging fromx tox, Rendered in stunning detail, Fisher's photographs uncover the strange beauty of the honeybee's pattern, form, and structure, Comprising,hexagonal lenses, their eyes resemble the structure of a honeycomb, The honeybee's proboscisa strawlike appendage used to suck nectar out of flowers, folds resembles a long, slender hairy tongue, Its sixlegged exoskeleton is fuzzy with hairs that build up a static charge as the bee flies in order to electrically attract pollen, Wings clasp together with tiny hooks and a doubleedged stinger resembles a serrated hypodermic needle, The honeybee's three pairs of segmented legs are a revelation, with their antennae cleaners, sharppointed claws, and baskets to carry pollen to the hive, These visual discoveries, made otherworldly through Fisher's lens, expand the boundaries of our thinking about the natural world and stimulate our imaginations, BEE features a foreword by nature writer and New York Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg, .