TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schacker,Michael
TI  - A spring without bees: how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply 
SN  - 9781599216003
AV  - SF538.5.C65 S33 2008
U1  - 638.15 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Guilford, Conn.
PB  - Lyons Press
KW  - Colony collapse disorder of honeybees
KW  - Honeybee
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Bee culture
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Food supply
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-237) and index; Foreword -- Acknowledgments --1:  To bee or not to bee -- 2:  Colony collapse disorder -- 3:  Potential impact of colony collapse disorder -- 4:  It's not the cell phones- -- 5:  It's not the mites or a virus- -- 6:  French say they know why -- 7:  Return of the bees!  -- 8:  America in the dark -- 9:  Civilization collapse disorder -- 10:  Farmer solution -- 11:  Taking your home and lawn organic -- 12:  Organic golf, anyone? -- 13:  Beekeeper solution -- 14:  Plant a bee garden and they will come -- 15:  Plan bee -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1:  Notes -- Appendix 2:  Beekeeper letter to EU commission -- Appendix 3:  FIFRA section 18 exemptions for imidacloprid (IMD)-EPA -- Appendix 4:  Section 18 of federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act (FIFRA) -- Appendix 5:  Colony collapse disorder in the United States -- Appendix 6:  Farmer solutions -- Appendix 7:  Organic home and garden solutions -- Appendix 8:  Beekeeper solutions for mites and bees health -- Appendix 9:  List of foods pollinated by bees -- Index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009284214-b.html
ER  -