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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: little book of bees
  title info:
    title: Bienen und Bienenvölker. English
  name:
    name part: Weiss, Karl
    name part: 1924-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Vergara, Carlos H.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ger
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: The more we learn about bees, the more extraordinary they seem. They have five eyes. Their fertilized eggs hatch as females; unfertilized eggs become males. They beat their wings at a rate of almost 200 cycles per second, but fly at only 10 or 15 miles per hour. In the course of a lifetime, a typical worker bee will produce less than a tenth of a teaspoon of honey, yet a single hive's population can produce as much as 2 pounds of honey a day. A queen bee, in a single day, will lay her weight in eggs - as many as 1,500 in an uninterrupted 24-hour period. And to communicate with each other bees do make sounds, but mostly they dance in order to share information on the distance and direction to the nearest food source. This book provides the newcomer a first view into the extraordinary and surprisingly complex and highly organized world of bees. The book describes their evolution, and explains the differences between wild bees and honey-bees. It also sheds light on bee society, with its amazing rituals related to work, reproduction, defense of the hive, and most amazingly, communication. The author also explains the critical role that bees and beekeeping play for human society, and offers advice for those interested in raising bees themselves. Dr. Karl Weiss is an entomologist and the director of the Bavarian Institution for Beekeeping at Erlangen, Germany. He is engaged in theoretical as well as applied apicultural research. Weiss is the author of numerous scientific and popular publications on bees and is considered one of Germany's foremost authorities on apiculture.
  table of contents: 1. The Bee's Position in the Insect World -- 2. The Social Side of Bees -- 3. Solitary Bees -- 4. Bumblebees -- 5. Bees in Human Society -- 6. Bees of the Future.
  note: Karl Weiss with Carlos H. Vergara.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154).
  subject:
    topic: Bees
    topic: Behavior
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Animals
    topic: Insects & Spiders
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Zoology
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Bees
    topic: Behavior
  classification: QL563 .W4513 2002eb
  classification: 595.79/9
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      title: Bienen und Bienenvölker. English
    name:
      name part: Weiss, Karl, 1924-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Copernicus Books, ©2002
    identifier: (DLC) 2002067537
    identifier: (OCoLC)49712235
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040806
    record change date: 20220105142420.0
    record identifier: in00002034112
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng