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A History of the Discoveries About the Sexuality of the Honey Bee, Eggers de Villepin

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A History of the Discoveries About the Sexuality of the Honey Bee

A Detour into the Past
Frédéric Eggers de Villepin
£13.00
£13.00
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Northern Bee Books (1st ed. 2024)
Softback / 64 Pages
ISBN 978-1-914934-88-9

Putting together this history of the discoveries about the sexuality of the honey bee gives us the opportunity to delve into a past where intuitions, advances, sometimes lasting controversies, twists and turns, misunderstandings, admiration, humility or emboldened presumption, friendly dialogues or discourteous polemics follow one another. In so doing, we will follow the slow and difficult work of elucidating reality about a few selected questions concerning what the Genevan naturalist Charles Bonnet called “the great & murky matter of the generation of living beings."

Frédéric Eggers de Villepin is an amateur beekeeper in Paris, France, and former General Secretary and librarian of the Société Centrale d’Apiculture, France’s oldest beekeeping organization.

VIEW Contents
  • Introduction
  1. A Question of Gender
  2. How are Babies Made? the First Hypotheses
  3. To Each his own Egg?
  4. How are Babies Made? Coda
  5. Looking for the Father
  6. The Choice of sex: Does the Queen Command Nature?
  7. Lucina in the Sky with Drones
  8. Happy Ending?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography

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