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The Lives of Bees - The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild (Hardcover)
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The Lives of Bees - The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild (Hardcover)
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How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the
world's managed bee colonies 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.
Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild
honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed
colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as
insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in
extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how
this differs significantly from their lives under the management of
beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to
beekeeping-Darwinian Beekeeping-which enables honey bees to use the
toolkit of survival skills their species has acquired over the past
thirty million years, and to evolve solutions to the new challenges
they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of
natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new
vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits
of honey bees. Engagingly written and deeply personal, The Lives of
Bees reveals how we can become better custodians of honey bees and
make use of their resources in ways that enrich their lives as well
as our own.
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