Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language

x, 118 pp. Through 40 years of brilliant, patient, scientific detective work, world-renowned biologist Karl von Frisch learned how the world looks, smells, and tastes to a bee: more remarkable still, he demonstrated that bees can and do communicate to one another information of considerable complexity. This lucid report of his findings, which were at first considered almost unbelievable in their implications, has become a classic in biological study, opening up a wider vision and clearer comprehension of our vast and complicated universe."