Fruitless fall : the collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis / Rowan Jacobsen.
Publication details: New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 279 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781596915374 (hardcover)
- 1596915374 (hardcover)
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- SF538.3.U6 J33 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.
Prologue: Florida, November 2006 -- Breakfast in America -- How the honey bee conquered the world -- Collapse -- Whodunit -- Slow poison -- Florida, November 2007 -- Almond orgy -- Bees on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- Resilience and the Russians -- The birth of beauty -- Fruitless fall -- Epilogue: First frost -- Appendices: African paradox -- Keeping bees -- Cultivating a pollinator garden -- Healing power of honey.
Traces the significant 2007 and 2008 reductions in honeybee populations, identifying the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder to explain the link between bee pollination and industrial agriculture and predicts dangerous reductions in food output.