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The Dancing Bees:

An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee
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Taylor & Francis, 1966 - Bees - 198 pages
  

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Contents

Head of bee
6
Fig page i Possible patterns of comb
7
HOW BEES FEED
9
Flower with nectar exposed
11
3 Flower with nectar secreted
12
5 Hindleg of pollen collector
16
THE BROOD
19
Queen laying eggs
21
Hives painted to simplify homing
92
Changing the surroundings of the hive
94
experiment in orientation
95
Change of background experiment
97
Change of background experiment
99
Round dance of nectar collector
102
Experiment to determine importance of scent in honeystomach 110
110
Experiment with two feeding places
114

The brood comb
22
Egg and larva of bee
22
9 Reproductory organs of queen
25
THE SWARM
27
DIVISION OF LABOUR IN THE COLONY
33
IO Glandular changes in worker
38
Separating old and young in observation hive
41
SMELL AND TASTE
44
Boxes used for scent training experiments
47
Experiments with scent and colour
54
colour and scent
58
Bees sensitivity of taste compared with others
61
THE BEES EYE AND HOW IT WORKS
63
Colour vision of bees and human eye compared
67
Hummingbird at plant
69
Diagram of human eye
73
a Bees
75
Diagram of bees eye
76
23 Sharpness of vision in insects eye
78
Shapes distinguishable by bees
79
Diagrammatic explanation of polarized light
81
Effect of polarizing filter
82
Construction of a starshaped filter
83
Single portion of bees compound eye
84
HOW THE BEE FINDS HER WAY ABOUT
85
Experiment with coloured hives
88
Experiment with the colour of hives
90
The wagging dance
117
Diagram relating tempo of dance and distance of food
119
Diagrams of two distance experiments
120
Wagging dance on a horizontal surface
122
Wagging dance on a vertical comb surface
123
Fan experiment to check accuracy of direction finding
124
Plan of indirect route experiment
125
Experiment with two sources of pollen
127
Interchanging Campanula and Rose stamens
128
Changing the pattern of the sky in the hive
131
THE BEES SENSE OF TIME
137
Result of an experiment on time sense
139
Result of an experiment with training at three different times
141
An imaginary test across the Atlantic
144
THE BEES MENTAL CAPACITY
148
A digger wasp paralyses a bee with its sting
153
OTHER INSECT COMMUNITIES
160
Wood ants
161
The incidence of the suns rays on an anthill
162
Queen Red Ant with brood
165
Underground wasps nest
167
SOLITARY BEES AND HOW THE COLONY BEGAN
173
Nest of Carpenter Bee
174
Leaf Cutter Bee at work
175
Mason Bees nest
177
Male solitary bees clinging to a dry stalk
178

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JSTOR: The Dancing Bees
The Dancing Bees. William A. Dreyer. Ecology, Vol. 36, No. 4, 772. Oct., 1955. 772 REVIEWS Ecology, Vol. 36, No. 4 Guiana which as we now know can scarcely ...
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Lesson 1.4, Honey Bee Communication
The Dancing Bees: An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honeybee, by K. Von Frisch. Published by Harcourt, Brace, 1953. Return to homepage.
ag.arizona.edu/ pubs/ insects/ ahb/ lsn14.html

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The dancing bees: an account of the life and senses of the Honey Bee. more... Frisch, Karl von. $35.00. Octavo, dustwrapper, 184 pp., photographs. ...
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Library
Author. Title. Edition / Year / Notes. Brett Walter. Honey from your Garden. 1940. Brother Adam. Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey ...
www.southamptonbeekeepers.co.uk/ index_files/ library.htm

Malfroys Gold - Australian Honey, Honeycomb and Beeswax
Malfroy's Gold Australian Honey, Honeycomb and Beeswax. ‘The life of bees is like a magic spring. The more one lets it run, the more abundantly it flows… ...
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The dancing bees; an account of the life and senses of the honey bee. Frisch, Karl von, 1886-, [1955]. 5. The dancing bees : an account of the life and ...
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A graphic of the Federation's logo. The Federation of Irish Beekeepers' Associations. A graphic showing bees foraging on flowers ...
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Sheila Hicks Oral History Interview Conducted by Monique Lévi ...
And Karl von Frisch’s The Dancing Bees [The Dancing Bees: an Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee]. These were influencing me. ...
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About the author (1966)

The Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch achieved international recognition for his pioneer research on sense functions in fish and for his discovery of the "language" of bees. In The Dancing Bees, von Frisch explains how these insects are able to communicate the direction, quantity, and quality of food through dances. As a student, von Frisch studied medicine and zoology in Vienna and Munich. In 1910 he joined the faculty of the University of Munich and was associated with it intermittently until his retirement as professor of zoology in 1958. He also spent many years as the director of the zoological institutes in Rostock, Breslau, and Munich and was active in the international scientific community, lecturing in the United States and Europe. In 1959 von Frisch was awarded the Kalinga Prize and in 1963 a Balzan Prize. In 1973 he shared the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his contributions in sociobiology. Von Frisch died at the age of 96, ending a productive and rewarding life.

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TitleThe Dancing Bees: An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee
Issue 40 of Harvest Books
AuthorKarl Von Frisch
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 1966
Length198 pages
  
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