The lives of bees : the untold story of the honey bee in the wild
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019].
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xiii, 353 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 254 cm
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction
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595.799
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Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019].
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Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-335) and index.
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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.
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