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Our Native Bees - Paige Embry

Our Native Bees

By: Paige Embry

Hardcover | 7 February 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Honey bees get all the press, but few people know the fascinating story of North America's native bees—an endangered species that is essential to a heathy ecosystem and our food supply. Paige Embry’s sweetness and insight on this neglected pollinator will change your understanding of what a bee is and what they mean to us.

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’s native bees—an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry’s yearlong quest to learn more about these forgotten, yet fundamental, creatures.

Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Embry explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture. The people and stories are compelling: Embry goes on a bee hunt with the world expert on the likely extinct Franklin’s bumble bee, raises blue orchard bees in her refrigerator, and learns about an organization that turns the out-of-play areas in golf courses into pollinator habitats.

For bee enthusiasts and anyone who us curious about the natural world, Our Native Bees is an illuminating exploration of the pollinators essential to our survival.

About the Author

Paige Embry has a B.S. in geology from Duke University and an M.S. in geology from the University of Montana. She is a horticulture professional who has had a garden design and coaching business, taught how-to-garden classes at a local community college, and still teaches a class on soils for the horticulture department in Edmonds, Washington. She blogs about pollinators and has written articles for Horticulture, The American Gardener, and more.
Industry Reviews
"Designed to educate everyone from bee and honey enthusiasts to amateur gardeners and agricultural professionals, Embry's captivating profiles of just a few of the myriad native bee species and the dedicated individuals and institutions committed to their survival are as entertaining as they are enlightening." --Booklist

"Guides us through the world of overlooked and obscure bee species that fill the air around us: bumblebees, masons, alkali, leaf cutters, diggers, miners and many more." --The Wall Street Journal

"Clear and crisp. . . . A flight path through overwhelming amounts of information." --New York Times Book Review

"Embry--an independent scholar--shares her enthusiasm and concerns for these lesser-known but important insect pollinators. . . . Embry writes in an easygoing, conversational style. Nicely illustrated with a variety of full-color photographs, this book is an enjoyable read, suitable for both bee enthusiasts and general interest readers." --Choice starred review

"A buzzworthy book if ever there was one." --Country Gardens

"A wide ranging, entertaining survey." --Food Tank

"The readability of this book to non-scientists . . . is due to her passionate interest in bees." --Triangle Gardener

"With vivid color photography, thorough research and humor (such as her children's horror when they discover bees in the refrigerator), you'll come away laughing, better informed and ready to heed her clarion call to save these indispensable insects." --Seattle Magazine

"Embry artfully weaves together descriptions of native bees with accounts of the state of the science from leading research programs. . . . This book will open readers' eyes to the great diversity and importance of these creatures, and what's being done to learn all about their biology. . . Embry has found a calling as an ambassador for all the "other" bees, and she is inspiring audiences to care about these insects while they are still here to be cared for." --American Entomologist

"Embry writes with passion, humor, and authority, and this book carries an important message--that we need to care for these little creatures that quietly pollinate our crops." --Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale

"An absolute must-read. Embry takes us along on her engaging journey of discovery as she learns about the incredible diversity of our native bees and how they live." --Stephen Buchmann, author of The Forgotten Pollinators and The Reason for Flowers

"Embry's book is witty, insightful, and full of valuable information for both the long-time lover of bees and those just-now curious. She captures the essence of a bee's natural history and how we use (and sometimes abuse) bees." --Olivia Messinger Carril, author of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees

"Embry's writing is fresh and funny, and her enthusiasm for her subject contagious." --The Maine Organic Farm Gardener

"A very compelling book." --Appalachian Voices

"Embry possesses a voracious curiosity, a genuine interest in people and nature, and an ability to digest science and the people who practice it into illuminating and humorous stories. . . . Our Native Bees is essential reading." --Story Circle Book Reviews

"Embry's writing style is superbly suited to her task. Her friendly, humor-filled prose. . . makes the book particularly inviting to newcomers to the subject." --The Well-Read Naturalist

"A charming narrator. . . . Our Native Bees is a keeper for people interested in our food supply--gardeners in particular--as it relates to bees. The book is also essential for those of us who enjoy good writing with a bent toward natural history and science, who are simply keen to know more about the world around us." --The Missoulian

"The narrative comes alive with photographs that beautifully render her subjects, tiny or robust, hirsute or sleek, jewel-like or armored." --Quarterly Review of Biology

"Friendly, humor-filled prose... clear and down-to-earth explanations of the ecological role these different species play, as well as a collection truly remarkable macro images that vividly depict just how diverse and beautiful they are." --TheWell Read Naturalist

"This book is as fun to read as it is a collection of stories. It is the story of bees told through the people who depend on them." --The Albany Herald

"In an entertaining account of her personal bee adventures (far more fascinating than I had anticipated), Embry's book sets the record straight about the immense value and the precarious future of our native bees... I enjoyed every page of our native bees." --Seeds

"Fascinating...punctuated by beautiful, up-close photos of bees, and the author's passion and friendly tone." --Newsday

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