The Honey Bee
Understanding the Ultimate Engineer
$28.00
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2020
Summary
Beekeeper David Cramp explores the origins and evolution of man’s only truly wild, food-producing livestock, the extraordinary complexity of the hive and honey-making process, the mysteries of the life of the queen, workers and drones and their sophisticated language and navigation systems.
We underestimate the intelligence of these amazing insects. Bees know left from right, have a concept of zero, can count up to four, memorise landmarks on an internal brain map, and if they are ill…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869665203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869665201 |
| Author: | David Cramp |
| Publisher: | Upstart Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 483g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 165mm x 483mm |
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About The Author
David Cramp
David Cramp has kept bees for nearly thirty years, both as a hobby and as a large-scale commercial beekeeper in the United Kingdom, Spain and New Zealand. He has studied bee biology at Cardiff University, undertaken bee research for his masters in Zoology and is the successful author of five books about bees.
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