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Title: Form and Function in the Honey Bee Author: Dr Lesley Goodman Editor: IBRA Edition: January 2003 Pages: 220 Illustrations: 340 Format: 240 x 340 mm Price: £25 softback or £80 hardback (plus a £8 for postage and packing) ISBN: 0-86098-243-2 Exchange rate: Order: IBRA 18 North Road Cardiff, CF10 3DT UNITED KINGDOM Tel.: 029 20372409 Fax:-029 20665522 Email: books@ibra.org.uk Web: www.ibra.org.uk

Honey bees, in relatively unchanged form, have been around for over 50 million years. Cave paintings dating from 10,000 BC depict the relationship between the human race and honey bees. This book offers the most comprehensive and readable explanation of these interesting and essential little creatures. No natural scientist, ecologist or beekeeper should be without a copy.

When Dr Lesley Goodman finally lost her fight against lung cancer in 1998, she left behind her vision for an accessible, authoritative reference work for bee scientists, undergraduates and beekeepers. Form and Function in the Honey Bee is the fruition of her work a posthumous tribute to her life and interests.

Containing over 340 diagrams, micrographs and colour illustrations, Form and Function works equally well as an expert guide to the physiology and anatomy of the honey bee, and as an introduction to this fascinating field for students and others.

The chapters take the reader through the major structures and activities of the honey bee the antennae, compound eyes, dorsal ocelli, the bee's response to gravity, feeding, respiration, flight, glands and colony defence are all examined in detail to give the reader a comprehensive understanding of how and why the honey bee behaves as it does.

The book has been completed posthumously by Prof. Richard J Cooter, Chair of the L J Goodman Insect Physiology Trust, and Dr Pamela Munn, Deputy Director of the International Bee Research Association.

Chapters

1. The antennal sense organs: smelling, tasting, touching and hearing in the bee

2. Vision in the bee: the compound eye

3. The dorsal ocelli: the bee's second set of eyes

4. The bee's response to gravity: which way is up?

5. Feeding:

   1. Using the mouthparts

   2. Tasting the food

   3. Collecting the pollen 6. Respiration: how do bees breathe?

6. Flight: wings, aerodynamics, sensory control and metabolism

7. Glands: chemical communication and wax production

8. Defending the colony: the sting

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