The Biology of the Honey Bee

Mark L. Winston

    1. Introduction

    2. The Origins and Evolutionary History of Bees

    3. Form and Function: Honey Bee Anatomy

    4. Development and Nutrition

    5. Nest Architecture

    6. The Age-Related Activities of Worker Bees

    7. Other Worker Activities

    8. The Chemical World of Honey Bees

    9. Communication and Orientation

    10. The Collection of Food

    11. Reproduction: Swarming and Supersedure

    12. Drones, Queens, and Mating

    13. The Biology of Temperate and Tropical Honey Bees

    Reference

    Author Index

    Subject Index

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Mark L. Winston is a Fellow in the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.