The Honey Factory: Inside the Ingenious World of Bees
Black Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-76064-040-8 (ISBN)
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Bee hives. They might look at first glance like seething anarchy, but the bees know exactly what they are doing. With astounding skill, precise expertise and impressive teamwork they carry out their plans. The Honey Factory plunges the reader into the life of a colony of bees and takes them on a tour of their 'factory'. This is a world inhabited by headstrong individuals with clever methods and an amazing set of rules. Why aren't male bees allowed to stay in their colony just as it is getting cosy? What lies behind the sexual excesses of a young queen bee? And how do all the bees in a hive come to collective decisions? The Honey Factory answers these questions and more. Combining the most fascinating discoveries and greatest secrets in bee research, it ultimately shows readers why bees are so precious and why humans and bees cannot survive without each other.
J rgen Tautz, born in 1949, is an internationally recognised expert on bees and a professor emeritus at the Biocentre at W rzburg University. Since 2006 he has been in charge of the HOneyBee Online Studies (HOBOS) interdisciplinary project. Tautz has authored numerous publications and been awarded several prizes for his work in science education. Diedrich Steen, born in 1963, is in charge of the publishing program of a book publishing house. Bees have been kept in his family for over 100 years, and he has been an active beekeeper himself for twenty years.
Introduction
1Feng shui in the pitch dark: The factory and equipment of a bee colony
From a hollow tree to mass production: The evolution of beekeeping
Comb network technology
2Labouring in an annual rhythm: Teamwork in the honey factory
Feminine power in the bee colony
The bee dance: Rethinking old concepts
The drones
The queen bee
Bee intelligence: How bees see the world
3Honey is not everything, but nothing runs without honey: The honey production line
Bee venom, royal jelly and beeswax
Propolis, pollen and bee bread
Creme de la creme - honey
4Founding a daughter company: The swarm
Driven by nature
Swarm intelligence: How bees move house
Events in the old factory: The terror of succession
Beekeepers as killjoys
5Industrial espionage, robberies and invaders: Bees as aggressors
Hostile takeovers: How bees steal from one another
The menace of Verroa mites
6Industrial invaders: Bees and their struggle to survive
The myth of the dying honeybees
Industrial beekeeping and why dying out remains a possibility
Back to the future: Rediscovering old practices
Epilogue: Are honeybees self-aware?
Appendix
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.04.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Melbourne |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 378 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-76064-040-9 / 1760640409 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-76064-040-8 / 9781760640408 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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