Yaum Un Jadeed – World Bee Day, 20 May – The dark side of the hive With Guest Prof. Robin Crewe – Professor Robin Crewe, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship and of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria, is a co-author of the book, The Dark Side of the Hive.
Most people have a perception that beehives and colonies are perfectly built, and that they are places of industrious labour for the greater good of the colony and a workforce working for the common good.
The book uncovers the “dark” side of bees. He finds that there are lazy bees, sloppy builders, bees who are thieves, stupid bees and assassins too.
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