WILD HONEY BEES

The wild honeybee in its natural habitat as never before seen. Honeybees continue to live, almost unnoticed, in our forests, their original natural habitat, completely escaping human influence. These wild bees, perfectly adapted to their habitat, live there in a much more resilient way than the colonies managed by beekeepers: they are more resistant to aggressors, more adaptable to fluctuations in the environment and use the natural predators of their parasites to get rid of them. Ingo Arndt and the renowned beekeeping researcher Prof. Jurgen Tautz report for the first time in this comprehensive work on the mysterious life of wild bees. Not only do they document many previously unknown behaviors, but they also encourage us to look at beekeeping from a new perspective.