Author: Gregor B. PirschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Study of the Temperature of the Individual Bee
Author: Gregor B. PirschReport
Author: Iowa. State ApiaristPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bees
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Volumes for 1917- include also Report of the annual convention of the Iowa Beekeepers Association.
Publications
Author: Minnesota. Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Journal of Agricultural Research
Author: Information Processing in Social Insects
Author: Claire DetrainPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034887396
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg and Jacques Pasteels Studies on insects have been pioneering in major fields of modern biology. In the 1970 s, research on pheromonal communication in insects gave birth to the dis cipline of chemical ecology and provided a scientific frame to extend this approach to other animal groups. In the 1980 s, the theory of kin selection, which was initially formulated by Hamilton to explain the rise of eusociality in insects, exploded into a field of research on its own and found applications in the under standing of community structures including vertebrate ones. In the same manner, recent studies, which decipher the collective behaviour of insect societies, might be now setting the stage for the elucidation of information processing in animals. Classically, problem solving is assumed to rely on the knowledge of a central unit which must take decisions and collect all pertinent information. However, an alternative method is extensively used in nature: problems can be collectively solved through the behaviour of individuals, which interact with each other and with the environment. The management of information, which is a major issue of animal behaviour, is interesting to study in a social life context, as it raises addi tional questions about conflict-cooperation trade-oft's. Insect societies have proven particularly open to experimental analysis: one can easily assemble or disassemble them and place them in controllable situations in the laboratory.
Some Temperature Relations of the Honeybee Colony
Author: Vern G. MilumEconomic Entomology
Author: The Lives of Bees
Author: Thomas D. SeeleyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166765
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to beekeeping--Darwinian Beekeeping--which enables honey bees to use the toolkit of survival skills their species has acquired over the past thirty million years, and to evolve solutions to the new challenges they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits of honey bees.
Report of the State Apiarist
Author: Iowa. State ApiaristPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
American Bee Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bee culture
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations.