Honeybee Democracy

Description

Author: Seeley, Thomas D.

Publisher: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ)

Pub Date: 2010 (Eighth printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped.   Some slight smudging to rear cover at flap edge.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Seeley was explaining the obvious to beekeepers when he wrote this volume.  One bee finds x (nectar, pollen, water, space), she returns to the hive to communicate information to her sisters, and one becomes two and two becomes ten and ten becomes lots and a movement is born and the hive goes on.  Democracy in action, insect style.   Especially when it comes to swarming–a hive’s natural means of expanding.  Includes a discussion of building a bait hive for swarms.  Includes ephemera from the beekeeper’s meeting where the previous owner met the author.  Since its publication this has become a classic in beekeeping literature.