Bees Make Honey

A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.

From building a hive to harvesting honey, a top urban beekeeper shares how to care for bees the simple, mindful way.

by Elizabeth De La Luz Ortiz Vazquez (Editor),‎ Jorge Carlos Ruiz Ruiz (Editor),‎ Denis Israel Magana Ortiz (Editor),‎ Jesus Manuel Ramon Sierra (Editor)

Honey is a collection of recipes that showcase the sweet, rich, and sunny-colored delight made by nature’s hardest worker—the bee. You'll be surprised at how versatile honey really is.

This book is about the inner workings of one of nature's most complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author. In his investigations, Thomas Seeley has sought the answer to the question of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research–including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance, and other, more subtle means by which information is exchanged among bees–offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works. By showing how several thousand bees function together as an integrated whole to collect the nectar, pollen, and water that sustain the life of the hive, Seeley sheds light on one of the central puzzles of biology: how units at one level of organization can work together to form a higher-level entity.