The Lives Of Bees

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.