The Hive and the Honey Bee
Author : Joe M. Graham
Publisher :
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : 9780915698165
Author : Joe M. Graham
Publisher :
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : 9780915698165
Author : Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Bees
ISBN :
Author : L. L. Langstroth
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486317331
The first descriptive treatise of modern bee management, this influential guide explains and illustrates techniques still employed today. Reader-friendly and enthusiastic in tone, it addresses every aspect of beekeeping. 25 plates.
Author : Stephen Buchmann
Publisher : Ember
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0385737718
In Honey Bees: Letters From the Hive, bee expert Stephen Buchmann takes readers on an incredible tour. Enter a beehive--one part nursery, one part honey factory, one part queen bee sanctum--then fly through backyard gardens, open fields, and deserts where wildflowers bloom. It's fascinating--and delicious! Hailed for their hard work and harmonious society, bees make possible life on earth as we know it. This fundamental link between bees and humans reaches beyond biology to our environment and our culture: bees have long played important roles in art, religion, literature, and medicine--and, of course, in the kitchen. For honey fanatics and all who have a sweet tooth, this book not only entertains and enlightens but also reminds us of the fragility of humanity's relationship with nature. Includes illustrations and photographs throughout.
Author : Raymond Huber
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1536221058
“One of the most informative picture books about honey bees, this is surely among the most beautiful as well.” —Booklist (starred review) A tiny honey bee emerges from the hive for the first time. Using sunlight, landmarks, and scents to remember the path, she goes in search of pollen and nectar to share with the thousands of other bees in her hive. She uses her powerful sense of smell to locate the flowers that sustain her, avoids birds that might eat her, and returns home to share her finds with her many sisters. Nature lovers and scientists-to-be are invited to explore the fascinating life of a honey bee. Back matter includes information about protecting bees and an index.
Author : Thomas D Seeley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674043405
This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate 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--offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works.
Author : Roy A. Grout
Publisher :
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494122621
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
Author : Frank Linton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1501712217
This book will guide you in selecting an observation hive and choosing a site for it, modifying the hive and the site as needed, installing the hive, working with the hive, and maintaining the hive. It will prepare you to take a temporary portable observation hive to a market, fair, or school. Most important, it describes and illustrates the many ways you can use your observation hive to learn more about honey bees and how to care for them.
Author : Thomas D. Seeley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 140083595X
How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process Honeybees make decisions collectively—and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together—as a swirling cloud of bees—to their new home. Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority should be counted on for a dependable resolution. An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.
Author : Robert E. Page Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674075560
Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves to construct something as perfect as a honey comb. How do bees accomplish such incredible tasks? Synthesizing the findings of decades of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive presents a comprehensive picture of the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains how bees’ complex social behavior has evolved over millions of years. Robert Page, one of the foremost honey bee geneticists in the world, sheds light on how the coordinated activity of hives arises naturally when worker bees respond to stimuli in their environment. The actions they take in turn alter the environment and so change the stimuli for their nestmates. For example, a bee detecting ample stores of pollen in the hive is inhibited from foraging for more, whereas detecting the presence of hungry young larvae will stimulate pollen gathering. Division of labor, Page shows, is an inevitable product of group living, because individual bees vary genetically and physiologically in their sensitivities to stimuli and have different probabilities of encountering and responding to them. A fascinating window into self-organizing regulatory networks of honey bees, The Spirit of the Hive applies genomics, evolution, and behavior to elucidate the details of social structure and advance our understanding of complex adaptive systems in nature.