Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting Thomas D. Seeley 2016; 184 pages, 50 color illustrations Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ ISBN: 978-1-400880-33-1 $22.95 (hardcover) ![Graphic][1] In the summer of 1975, I traveled to French Guiana to study “killer bees.” Disappointed that only a handful of swarms had colonized the trap nests he installed six months earlier, my advisor, Chip Taylor, decided we should try “bee lining.” We bought a jar of honey and headed to a nearby park. We caught several honey bees on flowers, enclosed them in a cup containing diluted honey, set the cup on the hood of our rented car, and removed the cover. I'd learned a bit about the recruitment dances performed by successful foragers but had no idea what to expect from our exercise. The bees finished feeding, circled the feeder, and flew from sight. To our amazement, a bee … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif