The Little Book of Bees by Karl Weiss and Carlos Vergara, Copernicus,£17.50/$20,ISBN 0387952527 Reviewed by John Bonner
DAMNED if you do, damned if you don’t – it’s tough being a bloke in the ultra-feminist world of the beehive. The life of a drone may seem like milk and honey (without milk) but is nothing of the sort.
Oddly, male bees are produced from unfertilised eggs – yet their one and only function in life is to ensure that other eggs don’t end up in the same state. They hang around the hive being fed and watered by their obsessively…
