Buz or The Life and Adventures of a Honey Bee is a public domain work by Maurice Noel published in the late 1800s.
Told from the story of a bee, Buz describes the life of a bee from awaking in her honeycomb cell to receiving a fatal injury when losing her sting.
In this little story, the author ventures to hope that he may succeed in interesting children — perhaps even some big children — in the habits of bees, and in inducing them to study for themselves their most wonderful lives…. His object has been to awaken interest rather than to attempt instruction; but, at the same time, except for such parts of it as are obviously imaginary, his story describes nothing that he has not witnessed in his own hives.
And it is told in story form. But while learning of Buz’s adventures, you also learn:
- That each bee has a part to play in the hive.
- What bees do in a storm.
- How bees gather pollen.
- The role of the queen bee.
- Why bees swarm.
- How bees build the honeycomb.
- Much more.
Also along the way are little moral stories (like how to judge one another — or not) that blend into the story nicely without sounding moralistic.
The book is very accurate in detail. So bees will die. You know your children best.
This book was recommended as one that would complement the bee section of our free nature studies: Our Wonderful World.
Great book and free!
Free eBook
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Additional Resources
The First Book of Bees ~ Free eBook
Goes along nicely with the above for illustrations and more information.
The Honey Bee ~ Free eBook
Everything you need to know about honey bees with over 80 illustrations.
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