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At a Chats in the Stacks book talk presented at Mann Library in November 2024, Thomas D. Seeley, Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology, discusses his new book "Piping-Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved" (Princeton University Press, 2024). Seeley, who has devoted nearly six decades to the study of honey bees and their colonies, takes us inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, to illuminate mysteries of honey bee behavior including how they choose a home for their colony, keep the colony inhabitants warm, and defended the colony from intruders. Weaving personal stories with the latest science, "Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners" shows both the excitement of scientific discovery and how it continues to shape our understanding of these vitally important insects. Dr. Seeley is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Cornell University. For 40 years, from 1980 to 2020, he taught courses on animal behavior and conducted research on the behavior, social life, and ecology of honeybees. His scientific work is represented in an extensive and distinguished publishing record, including a number of award-winning books about bee biology and behavior. Among other distinctions, Dr. Seeley has received the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished U.S. Scientist Prize and has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences. Even longer than his career as a bee biologist, however, has been Dr. Seeley’s history as an avid beekeeper, having begun keeping bees when he was a high school student in the late 1960s, right here in Ithaca, New York. In his own words, while his professional distinctions have been gratifying, for Tom the most important ‘prizes’ by far are the discoveries that he has made about the lives of honeybees. For more Chats in the Stacks book talk videos, visit https://www.youtube.com/@mannlibrary and https://www.youtube.com/@cornelllibrary