%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:7973409 %A Whitfield, John %D 2010 %I Nature Publishing Group %J Nature %K animal_behaviour bees %N 7316 %P 658--659 %R 10.1038/467658a %T Animal behaviour: The wisdom of the bees %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/467658a %V 467 %X Swarms teach us that leaders should create conditions for collective decisions, learns John Whitfield. You can never tell when apparently blue-sky science will be useful, as biologist Thomas Seeley's career shows. His knowledge of honeybees, for example, helped to defuse a cold-war confrontation in the 1980s, when he showed that yellow dots on Thai jungle foliage were not residues of Soviet chemical weapons but bee shit.

@article{citeulike:7973409, abstract = {{Swarms teach us that leaders should create conditions for collective decisions, learns John Whitfield. You can never tell when apparently blue-sky science will be useful, as biologist Thomas Seeley's career shows. His knowledge of honeybees, for example, helped to defuse a cold-war confrontation in the 1980s, when he showed that yellow dots on Thai jungle foliage were not residues of Soviet chemical weapons but bee shit.}}, added-at = {2010-11-30T22:39:03.000+0100}, author = {Whitfield, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2822192c8c6e68933716e4310d7b9850c/smatthiesen}, citeulike-article-id = {7973409}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/467658a}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/467658a}, day = 06, doi = {10.1038/467658a}, interhash = {bb79e7351168ced56378fea21c4416e2}, intrahash = {822192c8c6e68933716e4310d7b9850c}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {animal_behaviour bees}, month = {October}, number = 7316, pages = {658--659}, posted-at = {2010-10-12 14:37:42}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, timestamp = {2010-12-02T14:41:48.000+0100}, title = {{Animal behaviour: The wisdom of the bees}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/467658a}, volume = 467, year = 2010 }