Bill Hesbach writes:

> I just started The Dark Side Of The Hive by Moritz & Crewe and
> it seems like it will be worth the read

I got that impression from Amazon's "Look Inside" when Pete first
mentioned the upcoming publication of the book.  I guess it's out
now. :-)  I should get it.

> they challenge the notion of the colony as a superorganism in exchange
> for the view that it's rather just the actions of individual bees
> motivated by self-interest and the colony's organization emerges
> from there.

I don't see how the two points of view are contradictory; it seems to
me that the second explains the first.  I guess I'll find out when I
read the book.

Anne, backyard beekeeper, Montreal.

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