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Informationen zum Autor Hilary Kearney is the author of QueenSpotting and the creator of Girl Next Door Honey, a beekeeping business that offers educational opportunities to hundreds of new beekeepers each year. She maintains the blog Beekeeping Like A Girl and her writing on bees has appeared in Modern Farmer and Grit magazines. Her work has been the subject of features in Huffington Post , Vogue , Mother Earth News , and other outlets. She rescues wild bee colonies and manages around 90 hives in her hometown of San Diego, California. Klappentext Expert beekeeper and swarm-catcher Hilary Kearney offers a unique window into the social lives and biology of these remarkable creatures, accompanied by the photos of world-renowned bee photographer Eric Tourneret. Readers will be awestruck by the hive as superorganism and how the individual bee lives and behaves within it, perfectly suited to each specific job it performs. From their intricate dances and information-rich pheromones to how they sense and respond to their environment, learn, and remember, this immersive journey into the world of bees offers an entirely new perspective on the wisdom of nature and our relationship to it. Vorwort An intimate, inside view of how honey bees experience the world and how their fascinating matriarchal society functions, by the beekeeper behind the educational business and social media handle Girl Next Door Honey. Zusammenfassung An intimate, inside view of how honey bees experience the world and how their fascinating matriarchal society functions, by the beekeeper behind the educational business and social media handle Girl Next Door Honey. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Life as a Superorganism How the cooperative nature of the beehive makes honey bees unique2 Busy as a Bee How honey bees organize an amazing and ever-shifting workforce3 What Bees Like From flowers to fallen trees, things that attract honey bees and help them thrive4 The Bees' Knees An up-close look at the honey bee's bodily wonders and how they connect to nature5 Life as a Bee How a honey bee sense and experiences the world6 Buzzwords The charming language of honey bees7 Drama Queens Explosive sex scenes, death matches, and other tantalizing tales from the hive8 What Bees Don't Like From bright lights to bananas, things that stress out honey bees and make them defensive9 Universal Bee The honey bee's characteristics and why we admire them Bibliography by Chapter Acknowledgments Index...
