1 A white-fronted bee-eater, a species with very low rates of promiscuity.

2 What do a peckish bee-eater, shaggy bison going head-to-head in snow and pelicans dancing in a pristine lake all have in common?

3 Before eating, a bee-eater removes the bee's sting by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the bee on a hard surface and that's how the venom is extracted and safe to eat.

4 The book says: 'Widespread pesticide use in farming reduces the numbers of large insects that the bee-eater needs to survive.

5 A brilliant blur as it plucks a butterfly from the air, the European bee-eater leads a colorful life on three continents.

6 One picture by Markus Varesvuo shows a brightly coloured bee-eater sitting on a branch and reaching out for a bumble bee in Csongrad, Hungary.