MACROCOSM HONEYBEE

For 40 million years, there has been one decisive factor in the success of the honey bee: teamwork. The perfect interaction of 60,000 individuals has produced a masterpiece of evolution: Apis mellifera. And yet today we are dealing with a global bee extinction that is directly linked to our survival. Statistically, every third bite of food we eat is the result of pollination by bees. Pollen is more precious than gold dust...
In this book, science journalist Claus-Peter Lieckfeld ("More than Honey") explains why bees are dying - even though hardly any organism seems to have come closer to eternal life than the superorganism Apis mellifera. The overwhelmingly beautiful and precise pictures by the renowned photographers Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch (World Press Photo Award, German Prize for Science Photography, Dr. Erich Salomon Prize, etc.) allow the viewer to immerse themselves in the fantastic real world of the (macro) cosmos of the honey bee.