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The biology of the honey bee / Mark L. Winston.
Holman Biotech Commons QL568.A6 W56 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winston, Mark L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Honeybee.
- Bees.
- Medical Subjects:
- Bees.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Mark L. Winston probes the dynamics of the honey bee's social organization. He creates for us the complex infrastructure of the nest, describes the highly specialized behavior of workers, queens, and drones, and examines the remarkable ability of the honey bee colony to regulate its functions according to events within and outside the nest.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages [227]-267.
- ISBN:
- 0674074084
- OCLC:
- 15015008
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