This now classic textbook has a wealth of attractive features: it is highly informative and meticulously researched and can be read profitably by professional scientists and lay audiences alike.
Famously industrious and prodigious users of chemistry, bees and other social insects such as ants and termites have always fascinated human observers. All this buzz of seemingly organised activity – how can this level of dynamic complexity ever come about from animals with a brain the size of a pinhead?