Honey Bees: The Secret Life in the Forest

Of the more than 20,000 species of bees estimated to exist in the world, none is as well-known as the honey bee, Apis mellifera, domesticated by humans for millennia. When talking about bees, most people automatically think of the insects in hives cared for by beekeepers. However, wild colonies of honey bees can also be found producing honey in tree holes and other cavities in natural spaces. This is what the book Honey Bees: Their Secret Life in the Forest, by photographer Ingo Arndt and scientist Jürgen Tautz, now published in Spanish by the editorial La Fertilidad de la Tierra, shows.