The Lives of Bees by Thomas D. Seeley

The Lives of Bees by Thomas D. SeeleyThis remarkable book eloquently explains how to be a better partner with honey bees, using nature as a guide. Seeley draws on insight and wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of research and hard work and provides plenty of instructions and illustrations. The Lives of Bees is for everyone who has, or wants to have, honey bees in their lives. Kim Flottum Editor of Bee Culture magazine Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent

“This remarkable book eloquently explains how to be a better partner with honey bees, using nature as a guide. Seeley draws on insight and wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of research and hard work-and provides plenty of instructions and illustrations. The Lives of Bees is for everyone who has, or wants to have, honey bees in their lives.”

Kim Flottum – Editor of Bee Culture magazine

Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Live of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s captivating story of what scientists are learning about the behaviour, social life, and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the beekeeper’s hive. In engagingly elegant and deeply personal prose, Seeley – a world authority on honey bees – demonstrates how wild honey bees could hold the key to reversing the alarming die-off of the planet’s managed honey bee populations.