The Foraging Behavior of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera, L.)

"...an introduction to the foraging ecology of the world s dominant pollinating insect, the western honey bee.... The introductory chapter is especially good [and] includes an especially complete illustration and table detailing important clades from the ancestral Hymenoptera, through the origin of true bees from ammoplanine (thrips hunting) wasps, and up to the groups within the family Apidae, tribe Apini, and species of the largely paleotropical honey bee genus Apis. Geological time estimates, and supporting references, are given for these evolutionary changes that are rarely present in other volumes on honey bees and their biology.... Another excellent discussion is Chapter 6 on pollination ecology...." --Stephen L. Buchmann, The Quarterly Review of Biology