Wild About is a celebration of the flora and fauna commonly found in our cities. Instead of fact sheets, this space will showcase books, art, music, societies, and whimsical objects about urban-adaptable plants and animals. If you would like to see your favorite urban-oriented plant or animal featured, please email us at info at localecology dot org. Image: Stenotritus pubescens by Sam Droege, USGS Bee Lab (flick/ source )* Two things inspired this edition of Wild About. The first is Laline Paull's excellent novel titled The Bees . The second is a Your Wild Life blog post about urban native bee research at North Carolina State. If you need to expand your summer reading list, I strongly recommend The Bees . Emma Straub reviewed the book for the New York Times . I was browsing issues of Edible East Bay for photographs of iced tea (!) and came across two bee-related essays, one about native bee habitat restoration and the other about backyard bee keeping . Edible Austi