This book is about the inner workings of one of nature's most complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and illustrates the results of more than 15 years of experimental studies conducted by the author. In his investigations, Thomas Seeley has sought the answer to the question of [...]

The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the [...]