What Bees Know About Flowers
The visual and olfactory world of bees, their ability to orient in space, and a greater part of their communication revolve around their relationship with flowering plants.
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Jürgen Tautz
The Buzz about Bees Biology of a Superorganism With photographs by Helga R. Heilmann Translated by David C. Sandeman
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Author
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tautz BEEgroup Biozentrum Universität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Photographs by
Helga R. Heilmann BEEgroup Biozentrum Universität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany www.beegroup.de
Translated by
Dr. David C. Sandeman Neuroscience Program Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley MA 02481 USA e-mail: [email protected] Translation from the German language edition: Phänomen Honigbiene by Jürgen Tautz Copyright © Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Spektrum Akademischer Verlag is an imprint of Springer Science + Business Media All Rights Reserved For copyright of pictures see Photograph Sources ISBN 978-3-540-78727-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-78729-7
e-ISBN 978-3-540-78729-7
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A bee colony—surely nature’s most wonderful way of organizing matter and energy in space and time.
Dedicated to Martin Lindauer, mentor of the Würzburg BEEgroup, excellent scientist and splendid person
The Author Jürgen Tautz is a professor at the Institute of Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology of the University of Würzburg where he heads the BEEgroup. He and his team have two major goals: basic research on the biology of honeybees and the communication of knowledge about bees to a broad audience. During the last 15 years, Jürgen Tautz has contributed a significant number of discoveries that have considerably changed our view of honeybee biology. Published in top scientific journals (Proceedings of the National Academy of the USA, cover-stories in Science and in Nature) his contributions have earned him the ranking of the fifth most frequently cited behavioural biologist. It is nevertheless his didactic abilities that have brought him his highest accolades. Able to make the most complex principles understandable to all, his universit
