{"product_id":"book-honeybees-a-natural-and-a-less-natural-history","title":"Book: Honeybees, A Natural and a Less Natural History","description":"\u003csection\u003eA Natural and a Less Natural History\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"product-author\" class=\"itsapp\" data-default-author=\"Jacques van Alphen\"\u003eJacques van Alphen\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"price-template--25677870465372__main\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"price\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"price__container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"price__regular\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"itsapp\"\u003eNorthern Bee Books (1st Engl. ed. 2024)\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"itsapp\"\u003eSoftback \/ 154 Pages\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"itsapp\"\u003eISBN 978-1-914934-83-4\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacques van Alphen describes the research that unravelled the behaviour of honey bees. Fascinating stories! How, for example, can a hive of several tens of thousands of individuals function without a leader? And what about the complicated sexual life of honey bees and, a problem Darwin was already considering, what is the ideal ratio of numbers of males to females? All aspects of the complicated sexual life turn out to be important in making bees resilient to new diseases and parasites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the US and Western Europe, honey bee colonies are still dying from varroa mite infections while bees in Southern Africa and South America quickly became resistant to it. This appears to have everything to do with the way honey bees are kept and bred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVan Alphen suggests solutions for making honey bees sustainably resistant to diseases and parasites, he makes proposals to improve the welfare of honey bees and suggests how to minimise the threat of honey bees to the diversity of pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book does not avoid the problems arising from honey bee keeping. Indeed, it puts forward bold solutions to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Donegal Bees","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57169767203160,"sku":"MI05045","price":32.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0518\/0624\/0948\/files\/1aec465c-23d8-42b1-9d75-53d9a0aead9b.webp?v=1776945689","url":"https:\/\/www.donegalbees.ie\/products\/book-honeybees-a-natural-and-a-less-natural-history","provider":"Donegal Bees","version":"1.0","type":"link"}