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Thomas D. Seeley
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes readers inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty of the most compelling mysteries of honey bee behaviour.
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Thomas D Seeley
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes listeners inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty of the most compelling mysteries of honey bee behavior. Thomas…
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The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest…
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ls ich im Herbst 1978 gerade meine Doktorarbeit beendet A hatte, uberlegte ich, welches Forschungsgebiet ich mir als nachstes mit meinen Lieblings-Versuchstieren, den Bienen, vor- nehmen sollte. Als ausserst reizvolles…
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Following the Wild Bees is both a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural world and a guide to the ingenious methods that compose the craft of the bee…
Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. It…
Through a study of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources, this work examines the way in which a highly-integrated animal society works. The author compares…
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies.
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Brian R. Johnson
The most comprehensive and up-to-date general reference book on honey bee biology
Honey bees are marvelously charismatic organisms with a long history of interaction with humans. They are vital to…
A remarkable account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Thomas Seeley’s pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic…
Benjamin P. Oldroyd,Siriwat Wongsiri
Oldroyd and Wongsiri provide a comparative work synthesizing the rapidly expanding Asian honey bee literature. The book provides a cornerstone for future investigations on these species, insights into the evolution…
Ingo Arndt,Jurgen Tautz
A lavishly illustrated exploration of the mysterious, hidden world of forest-dwelling wild honey bees-with new insights that promise to revolutionize conservation and beekeeping
The honey bee, a key pollinator, is…
A World of Insects showcases classic works on insect behavior, physiology, and ecology published over half a century by Harvard University Press authors Costa, Dethier, Eisner, Goff, Heinrich, Hoelldobler, Roeder…
