Heart of the Hive - Virtual Author Event

Virtual Author Event. Microsoft Teams link -  https://tinyurl.com/3jt35779

You are also welcome to join us at The Thinking Spot!

We will be chatting with Author Hilary Kearney about her new book - Heart of the Hive. We'd love to learn about honey bees as well as Hilary's journey with the bees - why she finds them fascinating and why we should care about these remarkable creatures!

About the Book 

This is natural history that is the farthest thing from dry. Heart of the Hive offers an intimate, inside view of how honey bees experience the world and how their fascinating matriarchal society functions. 

Expert beekeeper and swarm-catcher Hilary Kearney offers a unique window into the social lives and biology of these remarkable creatures, accompanied by the photos of world-renowned bee photographer Eric Tourneret.  Readers will be awestruck by the hive as superorganism and how the individual bee lives and behaves within it, perfectly suited to each specific job it performs. From their intricate dances and information-rich pheromones to how they sense and respond to their environment, learn, and remember, this immersive journey into the world of bees offers an entirely new perspective on the wisdom of nature and our relationship to it.

About the Author

Hilary Kearney is the author of QueenSpotting and the creator of Girl Next Door Honey, a beekeeping business that offers educational opportunities to hundreds of new beekeepers each year. She maintains the blog Beekeeping Like A Girl and her writing on bees has appeared in Modern Farmer and Grit magazines. Her work has been the subject of features in Huffington Post, Vogue, Mother Earth News, and other outlets. She rescues wild bee colonies and manages around 90 hives in her hometown of San Diego, California.