A spring without bees : how colony collapse disorder has endangered our food supply /
Schacker, Michael.
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press ;
c2008.
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.
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.
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.
Honeybee
Colony collapse disorder of honeybees.
Bee culture
Pesticides
Food supply.