For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic.
This lively journey into a bee\'s mind reminds us that the world is more complex than our senses can tell us..
What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee\'s place in the world--and perhaps our own.
With each discovery, Buchmann\'s insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.
We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do Bees dream? And if so, why?).
In What a Bee Knows , entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee\'s way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible.
Although their brains are incredibly small--just one million neurons compared to humans\' 100 billion--Bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember.
What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees\' mysterious paths and experience their alien world.
She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees.
She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate.
She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings.
But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools.
For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic
