• How honey bees survive in nature
• Publisher: Ulmer
• Hardcover, 352 pages

Blurb

WILD HONEY BEES IN OUR NATURE
Wild honey bee colonies also live and survive in our forests - independently of the care provided by a beekeeper. But how can this be?
The world-renowned bee researcher Prof. Thomas D. Seeley investigates this question. For this book, he spent decades studying the nest architecture of wild honey bees, their foraging sites, their mating system and their resistance to disease, and shows the differences to managed bee colonies.
How can beekeepers, beekeepers and insect lovers make use of this growing knowledge about wild honey bees? And how can the large gaps in the lives of wild and managed honey bees be overcome? A book with many questions - and many answers about Apis mellifera and their natural life and behavior.