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Let bees be bees: Review of Seeley, T. D., 2019. The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 376 pp, $29,95, ISBN 9780691166766

Thomas Seeley reviews a half century of research, mostly conducted by himself and his colleagues on the ecology, evolution, and natural history of wild honey bees. He provides insights into how bees reproduce, how they forage, and how they defend the colony. The final chapter, “Darwinian beekeeping”...

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Autor principal: Johnson, Norman A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388482/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12052-020-00131-x
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spelling pubmed-73884822020-07-29 Let bees be bees: Review of Seeley, T. D., 2019. The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 376 pp, $29,95, ISBN 9780691166766 Johnson, Norman A. Evolution (N Y) Book Review Thomas Seeley reviews a half century of research, mostly conducted by himself and his colleagues on the ecology, evolution, and natural history of wild honey bees. He provides insights into how bees reproduce, how they forage, and how they defend the colony. The final chapter, “Darwinian beekeeping” discusses how ecological and evolutionary principles can be incorporated into the practice of beekeeping. Springer US 2020-07-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7388482/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12052-020-00131-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_short Let bees be bees: Review of Seeley, T. D., 2019. The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 376 pp, $29,95, ISBN 9780691166766
title_sort let bees be bees: review of seeley, t. d., 2019. the lives of bees: the untold story of the honey bee in the wild. princeton university press, princeton, nj, 376 pp, $29,95, isbn 9780691166766
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