Melinda’s Bee-Hive Volume 1

Melinda’s Bee-hive is a collection of 8 episodes in two Volumes, describing the life of a worker honey bee called Melinda over the course of a typical year. The first 4 episodes in Volume 1 combine facts with imaginative rhyming poetry letting you into the mysterious world of honey bees and their importance to your lives today. These episodes are written and illustrated for children of reading age and parents can read them aloud to their younger children who will find that the illustrations help to explain the verses. Children will be fascinated to understand the daily tasks for honey bees both inside and outside their hive, their enemies and pests and diseases that cause them harm.  Packed with fact-based background information on aspects of honey bees, these poems help your knowledge of these intriguing insects to grow and offer the opportunity for you to actively contribute to their conservation by understanding  the needs of pollen-collecting insects in terms of flowers and how they impact on your lives in terms of pollination of fruiting plants and trees and, most excitingly, the production of delicious honey for your breakfast toast!