Honeybees by Jacques van Alphen Scientific Beekeeping presents many challenges

Beekeeping presents many challenges

Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience

the Asian or yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) was accidentally imported into southern France from China

Roger has visited and demonstrated at many teaching apiaries throughout the country

Among beekeepers there is a greater awareness of these issues with a shift towards sustainable beekeeping

Honeybees by Jacques van Alphen Scientific Beekeeping presents many challengesJacques 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