Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous BuzzR..., Thomas D. Seeley
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous BuzzR..., Thomas D. Seeley
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Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners
20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved

Author: Thomas D. Seeley

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/09/2024


Synopsis

Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes listeners inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty of the most compelling mysteries of honey bee behavior.

Thomas Seeley has devoted a lifetime to the study of honey bees and their colonies, unraveling the secrets of these wondrous insects in a career spanning six decades. In this book, he weaves illuminating personal stories with the latest science, explaining such mysteries as how worker bees function as scouts to choose a home site for their colony, furnish their home with beeswax combs, and stock it with brood and food while keeping tens of thousands of colony inhabitants warm and defended from intruders. Along the way, he shares the experiences that drew him to these studies, the small observations that led to big breakthroughs, and the sense of excitement that came with probing each mystery.

Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners provides a rare look at how a singularly passionate scientist and his colleagues deciphered the pipings, shakings, and puzzling tremble dances of honey bees, and how this journey of scientific discovery continues to shape our understanding of these remarkably intelligent and vitally important insects.

About Thomas D. Seeley

Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor of Biology Emeritus at Cornell University. His books include The Lives of Bees, Following the Wild Bees, and Honeybee Democracy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rea

This was so interesting! I grew up with my dad having a hive of honey bees, so this may be where my interest stems from. I found this a good balance between the facts/observations and the personal tales from the author, who is a very experienced researcher. I love informational books on a specific s......more

Goodreads review by Ink

Piping Hot Bees & Boisterous Buzz-Runners by Thomas D Seeley is my jam (or rather, honey in this instance) If you have seen any of my reviews, you will see that the natural world is right up there and as such, this was a real delight of an audiobook to liosten to Are you a person that prefers to foll......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany

This was a very interesting book that I am so glad that I got to listen to. It gave many facts about bees as the title indicates but the personal stories kept me reading. I could not imaging bringing home a swarm of bees home to study but Seeley made me think hmmm this would be a great way to watch......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

This book covers the research the author and his team performed concerning the various actions of honeybees and the hive in general. The author who has written other books on the subject of honeybees is a biologist who has dedicated over 50 years to the study of honeybees. This was a subject that he......more

Goodreads review by Elisa

Most people know that bees are wonderful, but it’s hard to imagine just how much. Thomas Seeley has been studying them all his life, and it shows. He discovered many of their habits, and some of his interpretations of this behavior are now common knowledge. You’d think that the content would work be......more