Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

What a bee knows, exploring the thoughts, memories, and personalities of bees, Stephen Buchmann

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-268) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

What a bee knows

bibliography

1355036930

Stephen Buchmann

exploring the thoughts, memories, and personalities of bees

"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

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

Exploring the thoughts, memories, and personalities of bees