Spring Without Bees How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Name: Spring Without Bees How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
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ISBN: 9781599216003

ISBN-10: 1599216000

ISBN-13: 9781599216003

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Schacker

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On the 100th anniversary of 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 some researchers think IMD is the new prime suspect for the devastating syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, which has raised the annual die-off rate of honey bees to 30% of all the beehives in the United States. They say even trace amounts of IMD makes bees lose their desire to feed, which would quickly lead to collapse. After several days, there are few or no bees left in the hive. Since honeybees…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902

Michael Schacker is an investigative science writer and cofounder of the Global Regeneration Network. A strategic consultant and writer in the field of regenerative agriculture, he is the author of A Spring Without Bees. He lives in Woodstock, New York.



Foreword


Acknowledgments



To Bee or Not to Bee



Colony Collapse Disorder



The Potential Impact of Colony Collapse Disorder



It's Not the Cell Phones...



It's Not the Mites or a Virus...



The French Say They Know Why



The Return of the Bees!



America in the Dark



Civilization Collapse Disorder



The Farmer Solution



Taking Your Home and Lawn Organic



Organic Golf, Anyone?



The Beekeeper Solution



Plant a Bee Garden and They Will Come



Plan Bee


Appendixes



Notes



Beekeeper Letter to EU Commission



FIFRA Section 18 Exemptions for Imidacloprid (IMD)-EPA



Section 18 of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)



Colony Collapse Disorder in the United States



Farmer Solutions



Organic Home and Lawn Solutions



Beekeeper Solutions for Mites and Bee Health



List of Foods Pollinated by Bees


Index