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  title info:
    title: Honeybee Nests
    sub title: Composition, Structure, Function
  name:
    name part: Hepburn, H.R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Pirk, C.W.W.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Duangphakdee, O.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 389 p. 171 illus., 100 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This work, a sequel to Honeybees and Wax published nearly 30 years ago, starts with a brief introduction and discussion of nesting sites, their spaces and densities, self-organization of nest contents, and interspecific utilization of beeswax. The following chapters cover communication by vibrations and scents and wax secretion, and discuss the queen in relation to the combs. Discussions on completed nests include the significance of brood, the roles of pollen and nectar flow, and comb-building, and are followed by a triad of related chapters on the construction of cells and combs and their energetic costs. An in-depth examination of the conversion of wax scales into combs, the material properties of scale and comb waxes, and the wax gland complex are presented. The next chapters are devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the literature on the chemistry and synthesis of beeswax, and, finally, the material properties of honeybee silk are highlighted.
  table of contents: General Introduction -- Nesting: Sites, Space and Density in Comb-building -- Self-organization of Nest Contents -- Intraspecific and Interspecific Comb-building -- Communication by Vibrations and Scents in Comb -- Wax Secretion, Comb Construction and the Queen -- The Significance of Brood -- The Role of Pollen in Honeybee Colonies -- Nectar Flows and Comb-building -- Construction of Combs -- Energetics of Honey/Beeswax Conversion -- Construction of Cells -- Conversion of Wax Scales into Comb Wax -- Material Properties of Scale and Comb Wax -- The Wax Gland Complex -- The Chemistry of Beeswax -- Synthesis of Beeswax -- Material Properties of Honeybee Silk.
  note: by H.R. Hepburn, C.W.W. Pirk, O. Duangphakdee.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Bioorganic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomaterials
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomaterials
  subject:
    topic: Bioorganic Chemistry
  classification: QL461-599.82
  classification: 595.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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