Volume 27, Number 6 · April 17, 1980
I Bee M
By J.Z. Young
Bumble-Bee Economics
by Bernd Heinrich
Harvard University Press, 245 pp., $17.50
The marvels of the societies of honey bees and their communications by dancing are widely known but probably few people realize that these are only the most sophisticated of the many less developed types of bee communities. There are 20,000 different species with all sorts of different cultures, making up the poorer. Third World of bees. Each species has developed a distinct pattern of organization in the long process of evolution since they first diverged from their carnivorous wasp ancestors when the flowering plants appeared over 100 million years ago.
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