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 | | The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism by Jürgen Tautz, Helga R. Heilmann (Photographer), David C. Sandeman (Translator) ISBN-10: 9783540787273 ISBN-10: 3-540-78727-5 ISBN-13: 9783540787273 ISBN-13: 978-3-540-78727-3 Hardcover 2008-05-21 Springer Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, Jürgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of bee colonies as perfect societies of selfless individuals ruled by a queen, Tautz introduces them as a "superorganism", a self organizing and complex adaptive system based on a network of communication; a fascinating result of evolution, a mammal in several bodies. The entire range of astonishing bee activities is described. Remarkable action photographs never shown before present bees busy with cell cleaning, caring for the brood, serving in the queen's court, visiting flowers, receiving nectar, producing honey, comb building, entrance guarding, heating and cooling. Spotlights include bees grooming, swarming, fighting, telephoning, sleeping and communicating by high-toned beeping, scents and dances. | ||
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Tautz' Et Al's Book a Must for Those Interested in Bees Last year at the Florida State Beekeepers Association meeting in Monticello, Florida, attended by folks from over the United States, I had the privilege of meeting Dave Westervelt, a Florida State Apiary Inspector who shared with me a most remarkable book. I was so impressed by the 5 minute conversation I had with him about it I went to W.W. Kelly's folks, the Priddys and bought the thing. I'd have bought it from Amazon if it had not been available on-site. Just now I'm finally getting it together to read it. It's called The Buzz About Bees by Jurgen Tautz. The 'U' in Jurgen has 2 dots over it. I don't know what that's called in English and my German is nonexistent. The book has some of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen and I'm sure you'll agree if you see them for yourselves they will blow you away. Helga Heilmann made photographs that are so incredible you'll feel as though you're inside the box without a veil! Remarkable! A truly accomplished photographer the envy of all us 'wannabes.' :-D In the book, a web site in Germany is given [...] and on it if you hunt around, you can find an English translation version in addition to the German. These folks have live web cams on their site. Have a look. I'm sure you'll agree it's an awesome site and truly wonderful they are sharing it with the world, especially considering the world faces if our bees go the way of the dinosaur. In short Dave was not exaggerating when he spoke of this book. If you've ever read E.O. Wilson's work, Jurgen Tautz's is in the same spirit and continues in a wonderful evolutionary manner of its own. Talk about radical ideas, Tautz puts forth some of the most compelling arguments for bees, viewed outside their phylogenetic schema and in an environmental paradigm, being on a par with mammals! If humanity can listen and pay attention to guys like him and E.O. Wilson, the world will be a far better place. This book is a must for anyone interested in bees or insects or nature! 5 Stars! This book is well worth the purchase. You'll gain so much from reading it. The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism | ||
Outstanding reference As a hobbyist beekeeper I've got lots of bee books and regularly read beekeeping periodicals, but haven't seen anything like The Buzz about Bees. While this isn't a beekeeping manual, there is much in here that has helped me better understand exactly what my bees are up to, how they experience me and my intrusions into their nests, and how I can help them thrive. Up-to-the-minute studies of bee cognition and behavior, vision, sense of smell, and communication are presented clearly, and the translation from the German is good. The photography is as outstanding and unusual as the text. This book isn't inexpensive, but you won't regret having purchased it. | ||
Easy and Great I"ve been studying honeybees, along with publishing research, and I think that Tautz gives a good kick off point for all researchers. And he also does a fine job of informing readers of all aspects of the honeybee. It is an extremely easy read, and I recommend this to all | ||
best book I have read about bees with great photos I have just read four books about bees (we have two hives now) and this was by far the best. It is not about bee keeping but about bees in general and I learned so much. The photos were fantastic. I first bought it on the kindle which I can not recommend since you can not really see the wonderful photos. So I ordered it again in hard copy. | ||
A Gift For My Husband, I Couldn't Put It Down. It was a little more money than I'd normally spend on a book that I was just buying for pleasure. I bought it for my husband. He keeps bees and has read every book he can get his hands on. He knew a lot of the things in the book already, but there were some interesting new things he learned, too. I learned a lot and especially enjoyed all the superorganism stuff. Beautiful photos and just really fascinating info. | ||