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What a Bee Knows : Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees - Stephen L. Buchmann

What a Bee Knows

Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

By: Stephen L. Buchmann

Paperback | 7 May 2024

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For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee
has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory
organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions
relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows:
Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious paths and experience their

alien world.
Although their brains are incredibly small-just one million neurons compared to humans' 100 billion-bees have
remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen
Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions
most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann's
insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.


What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee's place in the world-and perhaps our own. This lively journey into abee's mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us.
Industry Reviews
"As the title says, this volume is about bees. But unlike most bee books, this one was written by a pollination ecologist who knows bees as much as plants, and this makes a difference....Perhaps the most powerful thing we can do is to encourage this book be read by the broadest possible audience, so that people, just like Buchmann, realize how human bees are and how much we need to care about them."
-- "New Biological Books"
"Bees use a wide range of senses to navigate through the world, sometimes in ways we can scarcely imagine. As a pollination ecologist with decades of research experience, Buchmann is an ideal guide to this world, at once both familiar and alien, in our own backyards."
-- "An Outside Chance"
"In his fascinating new book called What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible."-- "Psychology Today"
"Stephen Buchman is renowned as one of the most eloquent writers on bees and flowers. In What a Bee Knows, he brings his breadth of understanding to the abilities and sensory capacities of these essential insects. Buchmann teaches us about the world according to bees--and about ourselves."--Laurence Packer, melittologist and author of "Bees of the World" and "Keeping the Bees"
"Stephen Buchmann is a renowned and talented writer for natural history and especially for the biology of bees and flowers. This book exemplifies his eloquence as well as his astonishing insights, depth, and breadth of knowledge.... This fascinating book provides food for thought for anyone who is curious not just about bees and other insects, but about the workings of natural history."
-- "Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada"

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