Bees As Superorganisms: AN EVOLUTIONARY REALITY

by Robin F.A. Moritz, Edward E. Southwick

There are plenty of books on the biology of the honeybee for all, the scientist, the beekeeper, and the layman. This onesticks out, since it is abook not on "the honeybee", but onthe honeybee colony - probably the most significantbiological structure in nature.Accordingly, this book is not intended as a reference bookon honeybee biology, but is meant as a new conceptualframework of an "old" biological understanding of thehoneybee colony on the basis of modern biological analysisand recent theories. The honeybee is presented as it livesand thrives in its social unit - the colonial superorganism.

395 pages, Hardcover

First published September 29, 1992