The Honey Bee: Understanding the Ultimate Engineer

Description

Bees know left from right, have a concept of zero and can count up to four. They memorise landmarks on an internal brain map, and if they are ill they go on a health food diet. The Honey Bee reveals the life and times of these complex insects which are man’s only truly wild food-producing livestock.

Beekeeper David Cramp explores the origins and evolution of man’s only truly wild, food-producing livestock. The Honey Bee offers a fascinating insider’s view of an insect that plays such a vital role in the health and life of the plant world, ecosystems and the well-being of our planet. It showcases the extraordinary complexity of the hive and honey-making process, and vividly explains the mysteries of the life of the queen, workers and drones and their sophisticated language and navigation systems.

Learn how the Queen is formed, why bees swarm and how the hive is built. You’ll also learn how and why bees and flowers developed such an intimate relationship. Especially with the amazing way in which flowers attract bees and the importance of pollination.