Honeybees by Jacques van Alphen Bee Breeding agriculturalists

agriculturalists

Bees are one of the world’s most efficient pollinators

contributed energetically to bee journals and cooperated with Langstroth on updating the latter’s seminal Hive and the Honey Bee

Originally published in 1985 this book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective

If we want to have bees that can exist and thrive in a changing world

Honeybees by Jacques van Alphen Bee Breeding agriculturalistsJacques van Alphen describes the research that unravelled the behaviour of honey bees. Fascinating stories! How, for example, can a hive of several tens of thousands of individuals function without a leader? And what about the complicated sexual life of honey bees and, a problem Darwin was already considering, what is the ideal ratio of numbers of males to females? All aspects of the complicated sexual life turn out to be important in making bees