A Sting in the Tale (34 page)

Sears, Jane

Sheppard, David

short-haired bumblebee

shrike

shrill carder bumblebee

Shropshire

Sladen, Frederick

smelly footprints

Smout, Anne-Marie

sniffer dog

social behaviour

Somerset Levels

South America

Southampton

southern cuckoo bumblebee

Southern, Lucy

Spaethe, Johannes

Sparrow, Kate

Sphecidae

sperm plug

sperm

Sphaerularia bombi

spider

SS
Aorangi

SS
Tongariro

St John's wort

stag beetle

stingless bee

Stirling

Stout, Jane

sugaring

swallowtail butterfly

Swift, Jonathan

Tasmania

Tasmanian devil

taxidermy

Tekapo, New Zealand

territoriality

thermocouple

thermoregulation

thyme

Toby the sniffer dog

tomatoes

tongue

tracheal mite

tree bumblebee

Twizel New Zealand

Uintatherium

usurping

Varroa

velvet ant

viper's bugloss

virus

voles

Volucella bombylans

wasp

Waters, Joe

Watkins & Doncaster

wax moth

weed

weta

white clover

Whitehorn, Penelope

white-tailed bumblebee

Wicken Fen

Wilson, E. O.

Woodall, Lucy

yellow rattle

Young, Jill

About the Author

D
AVE
G
OULSON
studied biology at Oxford University and is now a professor of biological sciences at the University of Sussex. He founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, whose groundbreaking conservation work won him the Heritage Lottery Award for Best Environmental Project and the Social Innovator of the Year Award from the Biology and Biotechnology Research Council in 2010.

A STING IN THE TALE.
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ISBN 978-1-250-04837-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-04838-7 (e-book)

Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, a division of Random House Group Limited

First U.S. Edition: May 2014

eISBN 9781250048387

First eBook edition: March 2014