The Bee Book: The Wonder of Bees – How to Protect them – Beekeeping Know-how

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Plenty of bumblebee natural history, and covers most British species even though it’s only about Essex bees. An interesting read by an eminent honey bee scientist on the workings of a honey bee colony." – recommended by Karin Alton On swarming Chittka makes a reference to the quite “eccentric” beekeeper Maurice Maeterlinc (awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911). Among his books is The Life of the Bee (1901), and I found a free version in the Internet Archive, as an ePub-book – this book is lovely but has to be reviewed another time!

As one of the great communicators of honey bee science, Tom Seeley has written a superb account . . . This is a book for every beekeeper and anyone interested in the natural world."—Stephen Fleming, Bee Craft Bees may visit upwards towards 1000 flowers and each flower has it's unique mechanics in respect to the location of nectar and the perils that may befall one who is not knowledgeable. Beekeeping isn’t something that should be undertaken without a lot of thought and planning. Where will you position the hive? Can you dedicate enough time to keep the bees healthy? Who will look after the bees when you go on an extended holiday?Most of all, it gives a really broad understanding to the reader of what is required to keep bees. This makes it ideal for those just starting out and even those just interested in the hobby. Researchers can follow the wandering of individual bees by attaching a 15 mg transponder. Unclear whether the bees can get a wifi signal. 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.

Friends of the Earth Limited Reg. No. 1012357. Incorporated in England and Wales. Registered office: 1st Floor, The Printworks, 139 Clapham Road, London, SW9 0HP Chittka makes a convincing argument for individual variability in bees personalities and why and how their choices may be affected by their size, which correlates to how much they were fed as larvae, and any other predispositions that make them better at one task or another, or more or less adventurous and relentless in their pursuit of pollen and nectar, and even their preference for one or the other. The experiments to study the bees' behaviour were really interesting. You'd think it would be easier to confuse a bee so they'd get a little lost, but they haven't been getting enough credit for how good they are at navigating the world. A wonderful read.Tells you everything about honeybees that has not been told . . . . The Lives of Bees is well-researched and one of the most authentic works on honeybees."— The Washington Book Review Honeycomb is a marvel of engineering, and if you interfere with the preferred method of placing the hexes, bees adapt in clever and beautiful ways. Bees in zero gravity on the space station made their usual hexes but didn’t angle the boxes, as they do on earth, because gravity wouldn’t make the honey leak out. Dit opzienbarende experiment is maar een van de vele die Chittka beschrijft in Het bewustzijn van de bij, zijn boek op basis van dertig jaar onderzoek. Dat bijen en hommels een zonnekompas hebben en aardmagnetisme voelen wisten we al. Het zijn zaken die hen helpen om van meer dan twee kilometer ver feilloos hun weg terug naar huis te vinden. Maar dat ze weten welke bloem net bezocht is door een andere bij, waardoor ze geen nectar meer bevat, was toch een verrassing. Blijkbaar zijn bloemen elektrisch negatief geladen en bijen positief. Wanneer een bij die bloem bezoekt wordt ze iets positiever, wat de volgende bij meteen voelt. Worker bees live only for weeks and have individual specializations such as constructing the comb cells, cleaning the comb cells, tending to the queen, guarding the entrance to the hive, foraging for nectar, or pollen.

A nicely presented book for older children. It gives an account of some of the problems facing honey bees, especially in the US. recommended by Karin Alton The Lives of Bees answers the complex question that has bugged beekeepers for decades: Why do some wild colonies thrive while their managed brethren collapse? Seeley meticulously guides us through the natural history of honey bees while examining the tension between what is best for the bees versus what is best for their keeper. You and your bees will benefit from this compelling work."—Rusty Burlew, HoneyBeeSuite.comBees memorize important landmarks by direction and relative to the sun, so if you go moving bees at night they’ll be totally lost the next day. If you move a hive a couple of feet, the bees will go to where they expect their hive to be and not immediately return to their home - possibly because they’re not sure whether it is a rival hive and they’ll be snuffed by guard bees. well shoot. first off let me say a huge thank u to all those who have died trying to figure out how a bee's brain worked. it was actually just two guys but maybe there were more that didnt get recorded. bless them and rip.