EAN: 9780691166766

LIVES OF BEES - THOMAS D SEELEY GEBUNDEN

Humans 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 about the behavior  social
life  and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the beekeeper's hive--and how wild
honey bees may hold the key to reversing the alarming die-off of the planet's managed honey bee
populations. Seeley  a world authority on honey bees  sheds light on why wild honey bees are
still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest
science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork  he describes in extraordinary
detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives
under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to
beekeeping--Darwinian Beekeeping--which enables honey bees to use the toolkit of survival
skills their species has acquired over the past thirty million years  and to evolve solutions
to the new challenges they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural
selection to guide their practices  and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better
align with the natural habits of honey bees.

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