🔹 Bee People and the Bugs they Love by Frank Mortimer

Rating: 5 of 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

By: Kato Justus 

I highly recommend this book!  “Bee People and the Bugs they Love by Frank Mortimer is a delightful, heartwarming, joyful, inspiring journey of discovery. You’ll fall in love with nature’s most fascinating six-legged creatures—Bees. Besides telling great stories about the quirky, mostly wonderful people who become beekeepers, readers have an opportunity to learn whether or not the world of beekeeping is right for them or not. This book is marvelous for many reasons but one of them is because it’s packed with “Bee Nerd Alerts” and amazing scientific facts about bees like:

🐝 Bees can count to four. 

🐝 Bees have five eyes.

🐝 Bees beat their wings up to 240 times/second and fly up to 20 mph.

🐝 The unending battle between beekeepers and the Varroa Destructor—a deadly Darth Vader mite that endangers honeybees.

🐝 Bees talk to each other by doing what’s called the waggle dance. The waggle dance communicates the direction, distance, and quality of a source of nectar to within 1 meter. That blows me away. Think about just how amazing that is. The very best GPS technology in the world is accurate to within ~4 meters.

🐝 Consider some “Bee math”—just how hard do these extraordinary creatures work? A healthy hive of foraging bees will fly a distance equivalent to an astronaut’s journey from the Earth to the Moon—only they do it every single day! 

🐝 It takes 12 bees a lifetime of work to bring you 1 teaspoon of honey.

“Frank the Beeman’s” primary objective is sharing his passion and love of bee with others—to teach. This book is packed with practical how-to information too. He walks the reader through how to become a beekeeper: how to start, care for, avoid mistakes, harvest your honeybees and their golden treasure. He shares one delightful—and often ridiculous or hilarious story after another to teach readers or the curious about bees and beekeeping. 

This book is a step-by-step demonstration of how a love for something can positively change an individual’s life. How that positive passion will then spill over; touching hundreds of people, families, communities, and the environment.

Whether your new to bees, an experienced beekeeper, an environmental advocate, or just looking for a very positive story, the pure magic of this book has something for everyone.

It has been my distinct pleasure to read an ARC copy of this book so that I could share my thoughts with others. Thank you. I marked up my copy with “wows” on amazing facts and have at least another dozen questions.

His generosity, big-hearted love and commitment bursts forth on every page of the book. Just like perfect golden honey, this book is very well written. Just like a bee it’s a fuzzy-warm, easy read with some zingers that will capture your heart, make you laugh, and fill you with joy and marvel. Master beekeeper Frank—“The Beeman’s” book “Bee People and the Bugs they Love” is a sweet golden treasure. Don’t miss out. Get it. Read it!