Little book of bees

Karl Weiss, Carlos H. Vergara

176 pages, parution le 22/10/2002

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Résumé

The more we learn about bees, the more extraordinary they seem. They have five eyes. Their fertilized eggs hatch as females; unfertilized eggs become males. They beat their wings at a rate of almost 200 cycles per second, but fly at only 10 or 15 miles per hour. In the course of a lifetime, a typical worker bee will produce less than a tenth of a teaspoon of honey, yet a single hive's population can produce as much as 2 pounds of honey a day. A queen bee, in a single day, will lay her weight in eggs -- as many as 1500 in an uninterrupted 24-hour period. And to communicate with each other, bees do sometimes make sounds, but mostly they dance in order to share information on the distance and direction to the nearest food source. Karl Weiss and Carlos H. Vergara provide the newcomer with a startling view into the surprisingly complex and highly organized world of bees. The Little Book of Bees describes not only the evolution of our honeybee, but also of dozens of types of wild bees. It sheds light on bee society, with its amazing rituals related to work, reproduction, defense of the hive, and, most amazingly, communication, and it even provides helpful advice for those interested in helping bees nest. Contents1 BEES IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND IN EARTH'S HISTORY2 THE BEE -- AN INSECT3 WHAT DOES "SOCIAL" MEAN IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM?

Anonymous Societies
Family Associations
The Insect Colony
Social Classifications

4 THE TRAITS OF BEES AND THEIR SYSTEM5 SOLITARY BEES AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Solitary Bees
On the Way to a Colony

6 BUMBLEBEES AND STINGLESS BEES

Bumblebees
Stingless Bees

7 ON THE SUMMIT OF SOCIAL INSECT LIFE

The Genus Apis: Species and Races
The Domestic Honeybee

8 NEST AIDS FOR WILD BEES

L'auteur - Karl Weiss

Karl Weiss is an entomologist and the director of the Bavarian Beekeeping Institute at Erlangen, Germany. He is engaged in theoretical as well as applied apicultural research. Weiss is the author of numerous scientific and popular publications on bees and is considered one of Germany's foremost authorities on apiculture.

L'auteur - Carlos H. Vergara

Carlos H. Vergara is an entomologist and professor at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico. He has worked and published about stingless bees, africanized bees, and solitary bees in several countries of the Americas, as well as about bumblebees and the pollination of wild and cultivated plants.

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Éditeur(s)	Copernicus Books
Auteur(s)	Karl Weiss, Carlos H. Vergara
Parution	22/10/2002
Nb. de pages	176
Format	13,3 x 18,7
Couverture	Relié
Poids	309g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780387952529
ISBN13	978-0-387-95252-9