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The Beekeeper`s Lament (Paperback)

How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America

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    The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America`s agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear—and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged.

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The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America`s agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear—and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged.

Enter beekeeper John Miller, who trucks his hives around the country, bringing millions of bees to farmers otherwise bereft of natural pollinators. Even as the mysterious and deadly epidemic known as Colony Collapse Disorder devastates bee populations across the globe, Miller forges ahead with the determination and wry humor of a true homespun hero. The Beekeeper`s Lament tells his story and that of his bees, making for a complex, moving, and unforgettable portrait of man in the new natural world.

Author:
Nordhaus, Hannah
ISBN:
9780061873256
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
269
Publish Date:
05/24/2011
Publisher:
Perennial
Language:
English

Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Starred ReviewIn this revelatory, bittersweet investigation into the state of commercial beekeeping in the 21st century, Nordhaus follows the migratory life of a commercial beekeeper, John Miller, as he trucks his bees between California and North Dakota, pollinating almond orchards, defending his territory of "bee yards" (flowering pastures), collecting honey, and, against all odds, keeping his bees and his business alive. It turns out that colony collapse disorder, which recently brought awareness of bees and their essential agricultural function to an oblivious public, is only the most recent of numerous threats to bee health, from 19th-century plagues of wax moth comb invasion to more recent infestations of tracheal and varroa mites that "killed nearly every single one of the continent's feral colonies, obliterating the wild bees that once did much of the work pollinating the nations crops and flowers." According to Nordhaus, hives survive now only with drugs administered by their keepers, who, in a profession where disaster is commonplace and profit elusive, are becoming nearly as exotic and endangered as their bees. Miller, smart, antisocial with humans, but tender toward bees and prone to writing ironic free-verse e-mails, keeps the narrative lively despite its often grim content. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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