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Honeybees and Wax - An Experimental Natural History (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Honeybees and Wax - An Experimental Natural History (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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"Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives
with honey and wax; thus furnisning mankind with the two noblest of
things, which are sweetness and light." Mindful of Swift's dictum,
this compilation is offered as an exhaustive coverage of a smallish
literature on the synthesis and secretion of beeswax, its
elaboration into combs and the factors which bear on the execution
of these processes by honeybees. To codify any aspect of the
biology of an animal of agricultural importance is to sift through
myriad observations and experiments, centuries old, that come down
to us enshrouded in the folk literature. It is evident that wars
and languages have also acted as barriers to the dissemination of
knowledge about honeybees. Thus, particular care has been given to
the primacy of discovery and its con textual significance. I have
endeavoured to not over-interpret data and to allow the authors'
works to speak for themselves. I have also tried to indicate some
of the more obvious gaps in our knowledge of honeybees in relation
to wax and to suggest some directions as to where we might proceed,
aided by discoveries made on other animals and plants. This was
done to remind the seasoned bee-hand of our general neglect of
beeswax biology, historically constituting less than a percentage
point of the apicultural literature."
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