The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with QuarkXPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font. The inside layout was formatted in FrameMaker 5.0 by Mike Sierra using ITC Garamond Light and ITC Garamond Book fonts, and was designed by Nancy Priest and Edie Freedman. The figures were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.5 by Chris Reilley. This colophon was written by Michael Kalantarian and Lenny Muellner.
Honeybees are highly social creatures.
Workers are responsible for locating and collecting the pollen, nectar, water, and resin necessary to the hive. When a worker locates such a source, she returns to the hive and performs a beedance. It takes about ten million such worker-trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey. Workers also build and maintain the hive, and feed the colony. There is no biological difference between female bees at birth.