Author: Brigit Strawbridge HowardPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603589864
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A Journey Back to Nature
The Dancing Bees
Author: Tania MunzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602086X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Karl von Frisch, in January 1946, deciphered the dancing language of honeybees. Over the previous summer, he had discovered that the bees communicate the distance and direction of food sources by means of the dances they run upon returning from foraging flights. The news of the discovery, which led later to a Nobel Prize, quickly spread across Europe and beyond. The Dancing Bees is a dual biography on the one hand of von Frisch as one of the most innovative and successful scientists of the twentieth century and, on the other, of his honeybees as experimental and especially communicating animals that play a rich role in human culture."
Author: Carl von FrischDancing Bees
Author: Ranjit LalPublisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181461568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Did You Know That Bees Make A Real Song And Dance Over Honey? And Delicate Butterflies Can Frighten Fearsome Birds? Superbly Comic Pictures Exaggerate Funny But True Facts About The Mad, Mad World Of Creepy Crawlies.
Bee Dance
Author: Rick ChrustowskiPublisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1627796819
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In Bee Dance, follow a foraging honeybee as she searches for food and returns to the hive to share the news in a honeybee dance! A honeybee searches for nectar, then returns to the hive to tell the other bees. She does a waggle dance, moving in a special figure-eight pattern to share the location of the foodsource with her hivemates. With vivid and active images, Rick Chrustowski brings these amazing bees to life!
Author: James TateHoneybee Democracy
Author: Thomas D. SeeleyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140083595X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process Honeybees make decisions collectively—and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together—as a swirling cloud of bees—to their new home. Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority should be counted on for a dependable resolution. An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.
Bees and Their Keepers
Author: Lotte MöllerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781419751141
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In the tradition of Lars Mytting's Norwegian Wood, a beautifully illustrated chronicle of a year in the life of a beekeeper from Swedish author Lotte Möller The study of bees has often been considered a divine occupation, as the creature's attention to detail and purpose is so special, and the honey they produce almost magical. In this compelling cultural history that moves beautifully through the beekeeper's year, Swedish beekeeper and writer Lotte Möller shares her understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present with deep knowledge and sharp wit. Möller gives insight into the activity in the hive and describes the bees' natural order and habits. She explores the myths of the past, and how and when they were replaced by fact. In stories from her travels, Möller encounters a host of colorful characters, from a trigger-happy California beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, to the legendary Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast Queen, now popular around the world. Filled with bee illustrations buzzing from cover to endpaper, Bees and Their Keepers is a gorgeous book for the beekeeper and general reader alike.
Apples, Oranges, Beans and Peas, Dancing Doggies and Singing Bees
Author: Jean E. CutlerPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480946397
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Apples, Oranges, Beans and Peas, Dancing Doggies and Singing Bees By: Jean E. Cutler When Ben’s brother, Noah, hesitates to eat his fruit and vegetables, Ben tells his brother about a happy family of fruits and vegetables that can help to keep him healthy and growing. Ben the Storyteller weaves a tale in Apples, Oranges, Beans and Peas, Dancing Doggies and Singing Bees and opens Noah’s eyes to a world where apples and oranges sing, the doggies dance, and the bees buzz around frolicking peas. There are many lessons to be learned in Apples, Oranges, Beans and Peas, Dancing Doggies and Singing Bees. The fruits and vegetables must learn to get along with each other and the entire orchard community. It is only when they get along in a family as part of a balanced diet that they can help children like Ben and Noah stay healthy. Everyone must learn to be kind and to eat their fruits and vegetables. Written in rhymes accompanied by delightful illustrations, Apples, Oranges, Beans and Peas, Dancing Doggies and Singing Bees can be read as a book or performed as a play for the enjoyment of the whole family or classroom.
Bees Dance and Whales Sing
Author: Margery FacklamPublisher: Sierra Club Books
ISBN: 9781578050765
Category : Animal communication
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This is the way to turn kids on to science." -BooklistFrom elephants that rumble to fireflies that flash messages to mates, Bees Dance and Whales Sing looks at the many ways animals "talk." Facklam's text and Johnson's drawings explore the world of animal communication expertly, but always in a style that will engage young readers.
