The Book of Bees

1. 100 millions years ago: bees and dinosaurs * 2. How a bee is built * 3. Types of bee and their functions * 4. The Queen Bee and bee breeding * 5. Bees' dancing and swarming * 6. Honeycomb, contractions based on it and other examples of biomimetics * 7. Pollination * 8. Fruits and vegetables that rely on bees * 9. Other secondary pollinators * 10. First traces of contact between a man and a bee * 11. Ancient Egypt 12. Greek divinities and honey in Greek mythology * 13. Alexander and Poppea * 14. Beehive Design * 15. Early Slavs and Saint Ambrose * 16. Napoleon and Josephine 17. Curiosities * 18. Early honey harvesting * 19. Honey harvesting and early honey-hunters * 20. How a bee-hive is built * 21. Beekeeper's clothing and tools * 22. A beekeeper's work * 23. Types of beehives * 24. Figurative * 25. Ethiopia and Cameroon * 26. Asia * 27. Honey-giving plants * 28. Travelling apiaries * 29. How honey's by-products are made * 30. Types of honey and dishes in which it's used * 31. Enemies of bees and lovers of honey * 32. Bee sting * 33. Vanishing bees and hand-pollination * 34. Beehives in cities and hotels for pollinators * 35. Curiosities