A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
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In a riveting detective story that melds science and politics, Michael Schacker investigates the case of the missing bees, examining the many theories on the cause, including cell phones, mites, new pathogens, and bee management.
Foreword ixAcknowledgments xi1 To Bee or Not to Bee 12 Colony Collapse Disorder 143 The Potential Impact of Colony Collapse Disorder 234 It's Not the Cell Phones... 295 It's Not the Mites or a Virus... 356 The French Say They Know Why 527 The Return of the Bees! 688 America in the Dark 929 Civilization Collapse Disorder 13810 The Farmer Solution 15511 Taking Your Home and Lawn Organic 16712 Organic Golf, Anyone? 18213 The Beekeeper Solution 19314 Plant a Bee Garden and They Will Come 20415 Plan Bee 214AppendixesAppendix 1 Notes 230Appendix 2 Beekeeper Letter to EU Commission 238Appendix 3 FIFRA Section 18 Exemptions for Imidacloprid (IMD)-EPA 244Appendix 4 Section 18 of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 257Appendix 5 Colony Collapse Disorder in the United States 260Appendix 6 Farmer Solutions 261Appendix 7 Organic Home and Lawn Solutions 265Appendix 8 Beekeeper Solutions for Mites and Bee Health 268Appendix 9 List of Foods Pollinated by Bees 271Index 273
