Most people know only the hive bee, the humble bee, the wasp and the hornet, but Britain has some four hundred kinds of stinging insect. The entomologist Edward Saunders introduces them simply: solitary bees and cuckoo bees, the digging fossors, solitary and social wasps, humble bees and ants with their lodgers, with notes on how they are built and how they live.
A pleasant field companion for gardeners and naturalists curious about the insects humming in their borders. Download the free EPUB.