This book is about the inner workings of one of nature's most complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author. In his investigations, Thomas Seeley has sought the answer to the question of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research--including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance, and other, more subtle means by which information is exchanged among bees--offer the clearest, most detailed picture...
This book is about the inner workings of one of nature's most complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and illustrates the resu...
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 Thema erschien mir die Frage, wie der Prozess der Nahrungsbeschaffung im Bienenvolk organisiert wird. Die jungste Arbeit von Bemd Heinrich, die er in seinem Buch Bumblebee Economics wunderbar zusammen gefasst hatte, zeigte den Erfolg einer besonderen Sichtweise: Er betrachtete das Hummelvolk als okonomische Einheit, die durch die naturliche Selektion dazu gebracht worden war,...
ls ich im Herbst 1978 gerade meine Doktorarbeit beendet A hatte, uberlegte ich, welches Forschungsgebiet ich mir als nachstes mit meinen Lieblings-Ver...
The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective.
Originally published in 1985.
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The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective.
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley's captivating story of what scientists are learning
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee coloniesHumans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, ye...
