Bees and their keepers : through the seasons and centuries, from waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh
Möller, Lotte, 1938-2020
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Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject to shed light on humanity's understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is matched by a wry exploration of how and when they were replaced by fact. In her travels Moller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of Læsø, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others as passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present.
Bees and their keepers : through the seasons and centuries, from waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh / Lotte Möller ; translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry.
Möller, Lotte, 1938-, authorPerry, Frank (Translator), translator
London : MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2020.©2020
223 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the Swedish.
97815294052629781529405262
595.799
EnglishSwedish
382161
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Animals | 595.799 MOL | Available |