| Description |
1 online resource (284 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Prolog: The Bee Colony -- a Mammal in Many Bodies; Man's Smallest Domestic Animal -- a Picture Guide; The Inevitable Honeybees; Propagated Immortality; Honeybees -- a Model for Success; What Bees Know About Flowers; Honeybee Sex, and Virgin Brides; Royal Jelly -- Designer Diet in Bee Colonies; The Largest Organ of the Bee Colony -- Construction and Function of the Comb; Cultivated Intelligence; Is Honey Thicker than Blood: How Important Is the Family?; The Circle Closes; Epilog: The Future for Bees and Mankind |
| Summary |
880-01 With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, JA1/4rgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of bee colonies as perfect societies of selfless individuals ruled by a queen, Tautz introduces them as a "superorganism," a self organizing and complex adaptive system based on a network of communication; a fascinating result of evolution a" a mammal in several bodies. The en |
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880-01/(Q With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, Јѓrgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of bee colonies as perfect societies of selfless individuals ruled by a queen, Tautz introduces them as a "superorganism", a self organizi- ng and complex adaptive system based on a network of communication; a fascinating result of evolution - a mammal in several bodies. The entire range of astonishing bee activities is described. Remarkable action photographs never shown before present bees busy with cell cleaning, caring for the brood, serving in the queen's court, visiting flowers, receiving nectar, producing honey, comb building, entrance guarding, heating and cooling. Spotlights include bees grooming, swarming, fighting, telephoning, sleeping ̀and communicating by high-toned beeping, scents and dances |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Honeybee.
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Insect societies.
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Animal colonies.
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Bees
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Apis mellifera (species)
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NATURE -- Animals -- Insects & Spiders.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Entomology.
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Insect societies.
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Animal colonies.
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Honeybee.
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Sciences humaines.
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Sciences sociales.
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Animal colonies
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Honeybee
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Insect societies
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Ethologie.
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Honingbijen.
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Populaties (biologie)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sandeman, David C
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Heilmann, Helga R
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| LC no. |
2008923756 |
| ISBN |
9783540787297 |
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3540787291 |
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3540787275 |
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9783540787273 |
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