Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners
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Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners

20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners

20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved

About this book

A biologist’s up-close account of how he and fellow biologists cracked long-standing puzzles about honey bee behavior

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 behavior.

Thomas Seeley has devoted a lifetime to the study of honey bees and their colonies, unraveling the secrets of these wondrous insects in a career spanning six decades. In this book, he weaves illuminating personal stories with the latest science, explaining such mysteries as how worker bees function as scouts to choose a home site for their colony, furnish their home with beeswax combs, and stock it with brood and food while keeping tens of thousands of colony inhabitants warm and defended from intruders. Along the way, he shares the experiences that drew him to these studies, the small observations that led to big breakthroughs, and the sense of excitement that came with probing each mystery.

Richly illustrated, Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners provides a rare look at how a singularly passionate scientist and his colleagues deciphered the pipings, shakings, and puzzling tremble dances of honey bees, and how this journey of scientific discovery continues to shape our understanding of these remarkably intelligent and vitally important insects.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Avoiding Asphyxia
  8. 2. Forest Homes
  9. 3. Homesite Inspectors
  10. 4. Choosing a Homesite
  11. 5. Consensus or Quorum?
  12. 6. Piping Hot Bees
  13. 7. Boisterous Buzz-Runners
  14. 8. Flight Control in Swarms
  15. 9. Astonishing Behavioral Versatility
  16. 10. Messenger Bees
  17. 11. A Tale of Four Species
  18. 12. Colonies Are Information Centers
  19. 13. Foragers as Sensors
  20. 14. Nectar Flow On?
  21. 15. Mystery of the Tremble Dance
  22. 16. Two Recruitment Dances, or Just One?
  23. 17. Movers and Shakers
  24. 18. Groom Me, Please
  25. 19. Colony Thirst
  26. 20. Resin Work
  27. Closing Thoughts
  28. Appendix: List of Signals
  29. Notes
  30. References
  31. Illustration Credits
  32. Index