Hi Pete,

Thanks for your book list and the digital links, it's nice to know what others have read. I have a similar collection of bee books which includes two of Crane's early works and Wilson's superorganism work.  I keep buying more books as if there is some time in the future when I'll have time to read them all. 

Anyway, I just started The Dark Side Of The Hive by Moritz & Crewe and it seems like it will be worth the read especially since they start with a challenge that the seemingly harmless analogies to queens and workers informs our thinking in a way that misdirects us from objectivity. It should be interesting as 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.   



Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT

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