What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchmann, Stephen L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bees--Behavior.

Bees.

Cognition in animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Island Press, 2023

Washington, DC : Island Press, 2023.

Biography/History:

Stephen Buchmann, is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees, and an adjunct professor with the departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.

Summary:

"The next time you hear the low buzzing sound of an approaching bee, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She might be responding to scents on the breeze as her olfactory organs provide a 3D map of an object's location. She might be tracing the route based on her memories of a particular flower or the electrostatic traces left by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious pathways and experience their complex and 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. What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee's place in the world--and perhaps our own."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A bee's life

The remarkable bee brain

Bees living together

What bees sense and perceive

Bees and flowers : love story or arms race?

Finding many lovers

Bee smart

Master builders and memory

Sleep and dreaming in bees

What do bees feel?

Self-awareness, consciousness, and cognition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64283-125-5