Bees and their keepers :
Möller, Lotte
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. - London : Maclehose Press Quercus, 2020. - 223 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
List of illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller 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 Möller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of Laeso, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others ad passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present.
9781529405262 hbk
Bees.
Beekeeping--History
638.1
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. - London : Maclehose Press Quercus, 2020. - 223 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
List of illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller 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 Möller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of Laeso, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others ad passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present.
9781529405262 hbk
Bees.
Beekeeping--History
638.1