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Title
A spring without bees : how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply
Author
Schacker, Michael.
Publisher:
Lyons Press ;
Pub date:
c2008.
Pages:
xii, 292 p. ;
ISBN:
9781599214320
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A spring without bees : how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply
Schacker, Michael.
Control number:
ocn228416972
ISBN:
9781599214320
ISBN:
1599214326
Local control number:
(OCoLC)228416972 (OCoLC)191923331
Call number:
638.15 S291 209-2574
Author:
Schacker, Michael.
Title:
A spring without bees : how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply / Michael Schacker ; foreword by Bill McKibben.
Variant title:
How colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply
Imprint:
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press ; c2008.
Physical description:
xii, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-237) and index.
Partial contents:
To bee or not to bee -- Colony collapse disorder -- Potential impact of colony collapse disorder -- It's not the cell phones -- It's not the mites or a virus -- French say they know why -- Return of the bees! -- America in the dark -- Civilization collapse disorder -- Farmer solution -- Taking your home and lawn organic -- Organic golf, anyone? -- Beekeeper solution -- Plant a bee garden and they will come -- Plan bee.
Summary:
From the Publisher: A century after the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States. Many beekeepers and researchers blame IMD for Colony Collapse Disorder, which has wiped out 23% of America's beehives. Even trace amounts make bees unable to fly back to their hive. Since honeybees are essential to the production of most major food crops, their demise could spell catastrophe. In a riveting, scientific/political detective story, Michael Schacker examines the evidence and offers a plan to save the bees. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, A Spring without Bees is both a powerful cautionary tale and a call to action.
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Subject:
Honeybee--Diseases.
Subject:
Colony collapse disorder of honeybees.
Subject:
Bee culture--Health aspects.
Subject:
Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
Subject:
Food supply.
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