The Art of the Bee Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies

Robert E. Page, Jr., is Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He has published more than 230 research papers and articles and authored two other books, The Spirit of the Hive (Harvard University Press, 2013) and Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding, with Harry H. Laidlaw (Wicwas Press, 1997). Page is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Science, Leopoldina (the German National Academic of Science), the California Academy of Science. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Humboldt Prize, 1995), the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellowship (2013), James W. Creasman Award of Excellence at ASU (2018), and the Distinguished Emeritus Award at UCD (2019).

Preface

Chapter 1: Environmental Artists
Chapter 2: How Bees "Paint" Their Local Environment
Chapter 3: Environmental Engineering
Chapter 4: The Social Contract
Chapter 5: The Superorganism
Chapter 6: Reproductive Competition
Chapter 7: How to Make a Superorganism
Chapter 8: How a Superorganism Evolves
Chapter 9: The Song of the Queen

Epilogue
Resources
Index