Five Wondrous Behaviors of Honey Bees with Dr. Thomas Seeley

Worker honey bees are remarkable creatures.  In this talk, Dr Seeley will present five short "stories" about the behavioral skills of these bees.  We will look at how worker honey bees 1) provide directions to important places, 2) rouse sleepy hive mates in the morning, 3) call for help in unloading nectar, 4) request help in grooming their bodies, and 5) prevent mass asphyxiation inside their homes.

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Dr. Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the behavior, social life, and ecology of honey bees. He has been an avid beekeeper since he was 16, hence for more than 50 years.  He is the author of several books on bees, including Honeybee Democracy (2010), and Following the Wild Bees (2016), The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of Honey Bees in the Wild (2019), and a new one titled Piping Hot Bees & Boisterous Buzz-Runners (2024). He lives in a forest near Ithaca, New York.