Jürgen Tautz - The Honey Factory: Inside the Ingenious World of Bees

Acknowledgements

This book is not only our work. We owe thanks to many who shared their knowledge with us, encouraged and supported us. We extend our thanks to all those in the Gtersloher publishing house. Ralf Markmeier, as publisher, who made it possible to publish a book by a colleague. Nicole Neumann, with boundless patience was responsible for impeccable typesetting. Sigrid Fortkord accompanied and encouraged us as our reader. Gudrun Krieger oversaw the corrections with professional care and all the Gtesloher colleagues thoroughly engaged themselves with this project. Their enthusiasm carried us through!

I, Diedrich Steen, thank those who taught me beekeeping. My father, Dirk Steen, who inherited three bee colonies from my grandfather, Abram Strohschneider, and so brought bees into the home, and Johann Noichl, who guided me to the right path after my catastrophic start. And Dr Gerd Liebig, who with his book Einfach Imkern and several meetings firmly established the way. I thank Pia Aumeier, whose courses I continue to experience as a steadily flowing source of insights. And I thank Michael Schlangenotto, Bruno Grndtkemeier, Franz Austermann, Siegfried Timm, Reinhard Diekhans and Dr Alexander Lojewski. My continuous exchanges with all of you prevented me from much beekeeping stupidity. A special thanks to my wife, Inge Bohnke-Steen. She not only, more or less, gave me my first bees and, more or less, endured the fact that on separator days everything was sticky. She also encouraged me to undertake this book and put up with the reduced time we had to spend together due not only to the demands of my career, but also because of the book.

I, Jrgen Tautz, thank all those that awakened my very late interest in honey bees, which unfolded into a fascinating area of research. Martin Lindauer for the crafty gift of a bee colony and the reproach, said with a twinkle in his eye, that it is an error for zoologists not to interest themselves in bees. I thank my wife, Rosemarie Mller-Tautz, and my children, Meiko, Silke and Mona, for their, to my surprise, endless understanding for my work and the not always easily endured effect on the immediate surroundings. I thank all my colleagues, students, beekeepers and other bee friends who feel included, for their encouragement and contributions.

Jrgen Tautz is an internationally recognised expert on bees and professor emeritus at Wrzburg University. Since 2006 he has been in charge of the HOneyBee Online Studies (HOBOS) interdisciplinary project. Tautz has authored numerous publications and been awarded several prizes for his work in science education.

Diedrich Steen is a publishing director. Bees have been kept in his family for over 100 years, and he has been an active beekeeper himself for twenty years.

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