In this book we discover how honey bees set up house, manage a vegetarian lifestyle, and make a beeline. We also learn how what honey bees do to warm and cool the beehive, how they tell each other how to find our gardens, and how the honey bee is related to other insects--and to us. An excellent, beautifully written book. Mattingly is a beekeeper in Oregon, and a writer and educator with graduate degrees in the ecological sciences, specializing in streams.