Chemical agriculture and pollinators: signs of a Planet in danger
Subtitle: Biomonitoring with bees. Environmental indicators of food security and health: climate, biodiversity, energy, fertility, pesticides and genetic engineering.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Youcanprint
Published: November 2022
Place of publication: Italy
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: AGRICOLTURA CHIMICA E IMPOLLINATORI:  SEGNALI DI UN PIANETA IN PERICOLO
Format: Paper book
Number of pages: 673
ISBN-13: 9791221002164
Copyright date: 2022
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Pianeta in pericolo. Il biomonitoraggio con le api. Indicatori ambientali della sicurezza
alimentare e della salute: clima, biodiversità, energia, fertilità, pesticidi e ingegneria genetica.
Youcanprint, edited in 2022.” (ISBN 979-12-20377-90-4).
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Book finished in October of the year 2021 (the first edition of the Italian original book was
printed in January of the year 2022); this translation was completed in September 2022.
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Table of contents: title: INDEX; title: INTRODUCTION	1; title: Foreword	1; title: THE COMMON THREAD: POLLINATORS AND FOOD SAFETY	3; title: PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS	3; title: PART ONE; title: BEES BIOINDICATORS OF A WORLD IN DANGER	5; title: BEES AND BEEKEEPING	6; title: THE BEEKEEPING SECTOR IN THE WORLD AND IN ITALY	6; title: THE BEES GUARDIANS OF OUR FUTURE	8; title: A DISARMING GAP GENERATES THE SYNDROME OF CONSCIOUS BLINDNESS TO THE PLANNED DISASTER	9; title: THE BIOLOGY OF BEES (Apis mellifera): an example of a female society of tireless, organized and altruistic workers	11; title: THE POLLINATION SERVICE	17; title: HONEY	18; title: THE MELLIFEROUS POTENTIAL	20; title: THE MAIN CROPS POLLINATED BY BEES	22; title: SOME TYPES OF FRAUD INVOLVING HONEY	23; title: SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN HYMENOPTERA AND FIG PLANTS	24; title: HONEYDEW HONEY	24; title: BEESWAX IN THE FOOD AND PHARMACEUTICAL SECTORS	25; title: PROPOLIS	27; title: BEE BEHAVIOUR	27; title: BUMBLEBEES	31; title: HEREDITY AND SOCIALITY	32; title: ANTS: DIVISION OF LABOUR AND COOPERATION	33; title: BEES AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS	38; title: BEES TRACKED BY MICRO-ANTENNAS	38; title: DETECTION OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WITH BEES	40; title: ANTENNAS AND ELECTRONIC DETECTORS: THE BIOSENSORS	42; title: INSECT MACHINES: CYBERNETIC BEES	43; title: MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF BEEKEEPING	45; title: INTRODUCTION TO BIOMONITORING	47; title: THE BENEFITS OF BIOMONITORING	47; title: BIOMARKERS OF PESTICIDE EXPOSURE IN HUMANS	49; title: THE USE OF BEES AS BIO-INDICATORS	53; title: EXAMINATION OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE AIR INSIDE THE HIVE	56; title: HYPOTHESIS OF BIOMONITORING WITH BEES	59; title: CHARACTERISATION OF THE SITE WHERE BIOMONITORING IS TO BE CARRIED OUT	59; title: HOW MANY HIVES TO USE AND WHERE TO PLACE THEM	60; title: HIVE EQUIPPED WITH SENSORS TO GET INFORMATION ON THE STATE OF HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR OF BEES	60; title: INDICATORS FOR SAMPLING IN HIVES	62; title: WHICH HIVE MATRIX TO SAMPLE FOR METAL MONITORING	63; title: BIOMONITORING RADIONUCLIDES IN BEEHIVES	64; title: DETECT POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS	65; title: MONITORING OF PESTICIDES IN DIFFERENT BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	65; title: SOME INDICATIONS FOR BIOMONITORING	66; title: HONEY SAMPLES	67; title: WAX SAMPLES	68; title: BEE SAMPLES	68; title: POLLEN SAMPLES	69; title: PALYNOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN OF HONEY	70; title: ENVIRONMENTAL MATRICES FOR COMPARISON	70; title: SUITABILITY OF DIFFERENT BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS FOR BIOMONITORING	71; title: BIOMONITORING AND CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS OF POLLUTANTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT	74; title: SAMPLING OF BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	74; title: THE PREVENTION OF POSSIBLE INTERFERENCES	74; title: LABORATORY ANALYTICAL METHODS	75; title: THE USE OF MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS IN BEES	75; title: PESTICIDES: MANIFESTO OF UNSUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION	77; title: SOME MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF PESTICIDES	77; title: TOXICOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION	80; title: A BULLISH SELF-DESTRUCTIVE EXPERIMENT	80; title: THE BEST-SELLING HERBICIDE IN THE WORLD: GLYPHOSATE	85; title: DDT: THE INSECTICIDE THAT HELPED TO DEFEAT MALARIA	88; title: THE ORGANOPHOSPHATE AND CARBAMATE INSECTICIDES	89; title: PYRETHROIDS	90; title: ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING INSECTICIDES	91; title: THE USE OF PLANT INSECTICIDES: NEONICOTINOIDS	91; title: NEONICOTINOIDS IN FLOWERS	94; title: NEONICOTINOIDS IN GUTTATION DROPS AND PLANT RESIN	96; title: POISONOUS SUBSTANCES AT VERY LOW CONCENTRATIONS	97; title: THE SUB-LETHAL EFFECTS OF NEONICOTINOIDS ON BEES	98; title: A POISONOUS INSURANCE POLICY	100; title: THE POISONOUSNESS OF CERTAIN INSECTICIDES TO BEES	102; title: PESTICIDES IN PLANTS AND BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	104; title: PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION	104; title: PESTICIDES IN POLLEN	105; title: POLLEN CONTAMINATION AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF SEEDS IMPREGNATED WITH PESTICIDES	107; title: PESTICIDES IN NECTAR AND HONEYDEW	108; title: PESTICIDES IN THE DROPLETS	108; title: PESTICIDES IN THE WAX	110; title: PESTICIDES IN BEES DUE TO EXPOSURE IN THE FIELD	110; title: SPARKS OF AWARENESS: THE TOXIC EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON BEES AND OTHER BENEFICIAL INSECTS	112; title: INTRODUCTION	112; title: LIMITATIONS OF THE PREVENTIVE TOXICOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT FOR BEES	114; title: SUB-LETHAL EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON BEES	115; title: REDUCTION IN OLFACTORY LEARNING CAPACITY AND MEMORY	117; title: IMPAIRED ORIENTATION AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS	118; title: OTHER BEHAVIOURAL ALTERATIONS	120; title: IMMUNE AND ENDOCRINE PROBLEMS	120; title: ADVERSE EFFECTS ON REPRODUCTION	121; title: LIFE CYCLE ALTERATION	122; title: PESTICIDES WITH AN ANTIMICROBIAL ACTION	122; title: OTHER ALTERATIONS	123; title: INFINETISAMAL QUANTITIES DAMAGE THE BUMBLEBEES	126; title: LOW-DOSE EXPOSURES IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL INSECTS	127; title: CONSIDERATIONS FOR SUB-LETHAL EFFECTS	130; title: PESTICIDES USED IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY	131; title: GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS WITH AN INSECTICIDAL ACTION	132; title: UNAVOIDABLE MULTIPLE EXPOSURES	133; title: INTRODUCTION TO SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS	135; title: SOME SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS	138; title: RISK ASSESSMENT IS NOT SIMPLE	142; title: RISK ASSESSMENT FOR OTHER POLLINATORS	143; title: PESTICIDES THAT ARE CERTAINLY VERY DANGEROUS FOR BEES	145; title: BEES BIOINDICATORS OF UNSUSTAINABLE CHEMICAL AGRICULTURE	147; title: WORLDWIDE BIOMONITORING ON PESTICIDES AND OTHER MOLECULES SUCH AS PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)	147; title: INVESTIGATIONS IN ITALY INTO PESTICIDES AND OTHER MOLECULES SUCH AS POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCBS)	174; title: CONTAMINATION OF BEES DURING SOWING	183; title: CONCLUSIONS	185; title: METAL CONTAMINATION	186; title: METAL POLLUTION IN SOIL	186; title: METALS IN BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	188; title: INTERNATIONAL SURVEYS ON METALS IN BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	190; title: SOME ITALIAN RESULTS ON THE MONITORING OF METALS IN BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	195; title: THE DETECTION OF RADIOACTIVITY	198; title: MONITORING METAL CONTAMINATION WITH ANTS	199; title: MONITORING OTHER POLLUTANTS, MICROORGANISMS AND DISEASES	201; title: BIOMONITORING OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN PLANTS	201; title: BIOMONITORING OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS	202; title: MICROORGANISMS IN HONEY	205; title: ANTIBIOTICS IN HONEY	206; title: MONITORING OF PLANT DISEASES WITH BEES	208; title: REFLECTIONS ON BIOMONITORING	210; title: EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES: THE DEADLY FACE OF PROGRESS	210; title: SOME PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS	211; title: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN THE FIELD	213; title: PESTICIDES: THE IGNORED KNOWLEDGE ON LONG KNOWN DANGERS	216; title: IF EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE, THE ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A LUXURY	216; title: INTRODUCTION TO PESTICIDE DAMAGE	216; title: DETERMINATION OF THE ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF RISK	217; title: PESTICIDES ARE TOXIC SUBSTANCES	219; title: PESTICIDES INTERFERE WITH THE HORMONAL SYSTEM	224; title: PESTICIDES AND THYROID	227; title: ALTERATIONS IN MALE FERTILITY	227; title: UNDERESTIMATED KNOWLEDGE	228; title: HONEY AND PESTICIDES	232; title: NEUROTOXIC EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES	233; title: RESPIRATORY PATHOLOGIES	237; title: THE ANTIBIOTIC ACTION OF ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDES	238; title: GLYPHOSATE AND INTESTINAL MICROORGANISMS	239; title: MICROORGANISMS IN THE SOIL	240; title: GLYPHOSATE AND THE RHIZOSPHERE	241; title: CANCER	242; title: THE SPREAD OF CANCER IN EUROPE AND ITALY	243; title: TOBACCO SMOKING AND LIFESTYLES	245; title: PESTICIDES AND CANCER	248; title: THE CANCER CENSUS	251; title: MULTIPLE CONTAMINATIONS FROM EARLY STAGES OF LIFE	252; title: SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS	253; title: ACCIDENTS	255; title: SOME LIMITATIONS OF PREVENTIVE TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION	256; title: THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE	258; title: INEFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS	259; title: THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION	259; title: THE CHALLENGE OF HEALTHCARE COSTS: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES	261; title: PESTICIDE SALES DATA IN ITALY AND WATER MONITORING	263; title: CENSUS OF PESTICIDE USE: AN ORGANIZED BLINDNESS	268; title: CHOICES TO IMITATE	269; title: COUNTERACTING AVOIDABLE CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION	269; title: BEE AS AMBASSADORS OF AN ENDANGERED WORLD	272; title: THE SUDDEN DEATH OF BEES	272; title: COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER, OR THE SYNDROME OF CONSCIOUS BLINDNESS OF A PLANNED DISASTER	276; title: MULTIFACTORIAL DILUTION	278; title: INEFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF RISK PREVENTION FOR BEES: vested interests instead of the common good	280; title: POLLUTION CONTAMINATES WILD FLOWERS, BIRDS AND SOIL INVERTEBRATES	284; title: PESTICIDES ARE PERSISTENT	287; title: PESTICIDE RESISTANCE	289; title: MISINFORMATION IS MORALLY UNACCEPTABLE	289; title: THE ROLE OF SCIENCE FOR DEMOCRACY	294; title: AN ALARMING GAP BETWEEN THE RESOURCES IN THE FIELD	298; title: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN PROTECTING COLLECTIVE INTERESTS IS CONSTANTLY BEING UNDERMINED	298; title: UNDEMOCRATIC TRADE AGREEMENTS	302; title: REDUCTIONISM GENERATED BY HYPER-SPECIALIZATION	303; title: PART TWO; title: REFLECTIONS ON ECOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOICES AGAINST NATURE	305; title: BEYOND ECOLOGICAL LIMITS	306; title: BANKRUPT NATURE AND OPERATIONAL SPACE FOR HUMANITY	306; title: THE SKY BELONGS TO EVERYONE	309; title: THE FINAL CENTURY: PLANETARY LIMITS AND FOOD SECURITY	310; title: UNSUSTAINABLE APPROPRIATION OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION	313; title: THE CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY GENERATED OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS: THE SUN BURIED	316; title: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE AND SOME PLANETARY LIMITS: CLIMATE, WATER AND SOIL	317; title: AGRICULTURE IS AN INDUSTRY THAT CONVERTS OIL INTO FOOD.	319; title: MORE THAN 50% OF THE VEGETABLES GROWN WILL FEED NO ONE	320; title: THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF THE HUMAN SPECIES: WE SHOULD BECOME MORE VEGETARIAN	321; title: THE OCEANS ARE IN DANGER	324; title: THE DILEMMA BETWEEN INFINITE GROWTH AND THE NON-MATERIAL DIMENSION OF PROSPERITY	325; title: ECOCIDE: THE ECONOMY ACCEPTS NO LIMITS	330; title: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT	332; title: ENERGY	333; title: THE HIDDEN EXTERNALITIES OF GREEN CAPITALISM	336; title: CLIMATE CHANGE	342; title: AIR POLLUTION AND ROAD TRANSPORT	342; title: CLIMATE CHANGE: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE	344; title: GAMBLING WITH THE FUTURE	347; title: THE CARBON CYCLE	348; title: THE AWAKENING OF THE GIANTS	349; title: CLIMATE CHANGE DAMAGES BIODIVERSITY AND FOOD SAFETY	350; title: THE FREQUENCY OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IS INCREASING	352; title: CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLINATORS AND FOOD SAFETY	353; title: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ZOONOSES	355; title: STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION AND TROPOSPHERIC OZONE INCREASE	355; title: DISTRACTING ATTENTION WITH SCIENTIFICALLY AND MORALLY INCORRECT DISCLOSURES	356; title: FIGHTING IGNORANCE AND INEQUALITIES TO SAFEGUARD ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH	359; title: IRREVERSIBLE SOIL DEGRADATION	362; title: SOIL IS A PRECIOUS AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE	362; title: LIVESTOCK, FERTILIZERS, AND SOIL	364; title: FERTILIZATION AND METAL INPUT	366; title: COMPOST: FERTILIZATION OR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES?	368; title: THE ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE SOIL ARE UNDERESTIMATED	372; title: FERTILITY AND FOOD SAFETY ARE CLOSELY LINKED: ZERO LAND CONSUMPTION IS NEEDED.	374; title: CONTAMINATION OF SOIL AND WATER BY NEONICOTINOIDS	376; title: ALTERATION OF THE BIO-GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS	378; title: PREVENTION OF SOIL DEGRADATION	379; title: WATER: A PRECIOUS ASSET TO SAFEGUARD	383; title: WATER, A UNIVERSAL RIGHT, NOT A COMMODITY	383; title: THE WATER CYCLE	384; title: WATER AND AGRICULTURE	386; title: NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS, AND EUTROPHICATION	387; title: STEROID HORMONES IN THE WATER	388; title: ANTIBIOTIC CONTAMINATION	389; title: PESTICIDES CONTAMINATE WATER DANGEROUSLY	390; title: SOME DERIVATIVES AND METABOLITES OF PESTICIDES THAT CAN CONTAMINATE WATER (and not only)	401; title: WE MUST DEPLASTICIZE OUR LIVES	406; title: THE ACIDIFICATION OF THE OCEANS	411; title: UNSUSTAINABLE EXPLOITATION OF THE SEAS	411; title: NON-RENEWABLE USE OF WATER RESOURCES	413; title: GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS: A PROGRAMMED ENSLAVEMENT	415; title: GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS	415; title: THE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE PLANTS	418; title: AN EXEMPLARY PROJECT OF PLANNED SLAVERY: THE HYBRID CORN	419; title: THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO THE COMMUNITY AND FUTURE GENERATIONS	422; title: ENERGIES FROM BIOMASSES: AGRO-METHANE OR BIOGAS	424; title: MANY AGAINST A FEW	424; title: THE PRODUCTION OF AGRO-METHANE	425; title: THE ADVANTAGES OF ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION	427; title: AGRO-METHANE FROM CEREALS AND LIVESTOCK MANURE	429; title: THE SUPPLY OF A BIOGAS PLANT	430; title: THE ENERGY BALANCE OF MAIZE PRODUCTION	431; title: THE ENERGY BALANCE IN THE BIOGAS CHAIN	432; title: REFLECTIONS ON SOME ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF AGRO-METHANE FROM CEREALS	435; title: THE BIOLOGICAL RISK IS UNDERESTIMATED	439; title: GENEROUS AND UNSUCCESSFUL INCENTIVES	441; title: THE BUREAUCRATIC MACHINE DID NOT PROTECT THE COMMUNITY	445; title: THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN EXAMPLE OF PLANNED ECOCIDE	446; title: AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER: THE IRREVERSIBLE DESTRUCTION OF BIODIVERSITY	448; title: PARADISE IS A GARDEN	448; title: WE HAVE ENTERED THE AGE OF LONELINESS	452; title: SOME CAUSES OF NON-HUMAN EXTINCTION	455; title: LOST PARADISES: DEFORESTATION AND BIODIVERSITY	456; title: INSECT BIODIVERSITY IS IN DECLINE	457; title: BIODIVERSITY AND FOOD SAFETY	461; title: POLLINATORS AND FOOD SAFETY	464; title: THE LOSS OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY INCREASES INSECURITY	467; title: SUB-LETHAL EFFECTS OF PESTICIDES ON WILDLIFE	467; title: BIRDS AND POLLINATORS SHARE THE SAME FATAL DESTINY	469; title: THE DOMESTICATION OF THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE IN ITALY	472; title: HUNTING IN ITALY	474; title: POLLINATORS IN ITALY	475; title: ARTIFICIAL COMPETITIONS BETWEEN POLLINATORS	476; title: ECOSYSTEMS THREATENED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF ALIEN SPECIES	480; title: ALIEN SPECIES	480; title: THE VULNERABILITY OF ECOSYSTEMS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF ALIEN SPECIES	481; title: THE INVASION BY NON-NATIVE SPECIES IN EUROPE	482; title: VITICULTURE AND THE (ALIEN) VECTOR INSECT OF FLAVESCENCE DORÉE: UNSUSTAINABLE CHOICES	485; title: NON-NATIVE SPECIES IN AMERICA	487; title: THE INVASION OF NON-NATIVE SPECIES IN AUSTRALIA	488; title: THE SPREAD OF CERTAIN INSECT-BORNE DISEASES	489; title: SOME FACTORS FAVOURING THE ARTIFICIAL SPREAD OF SPECIES	490; title: THE VOLUNTARY INTRODUCTION OF ALIEN SPECIES FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL PURPOSES	492; title: QUANTIFYING AND MONETIZING MAN'S DOMINION OVER NATURE	493; title: THE VILLAGE OF PROGRAMMED BIOLOGICAL DESTINY	495; title: OTHER PROBABLE FUTURE DISASTERS: GENETIC ENGINEERING	495; title: BIOTECHNOLOGY OPENS UP NEW FRONTIERS	496; title: APPLICATIONS IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE: GENE THERAPY	499; title: GENE THERAPY IS NOW A REALITY: THE CASE OF THE STRIMVELIS TREATMENT	500; title: A FAILURE: THE GLYBERA TREATMENT	501; title: ZOLGENSMA GENE THERAPY	501; title: LUXTURNA GENE THERAPY	502; title: ZYNTEGLO GENE THERAPY	502; title: ARTIFICIAL HUMAN SELECTION: PROGRAMMING ONE'S OWN GENETIC DESTINY	503; title: ASSISTED REPRODUCTION	504; title: CHILDREN FROM THREE PARENTS	504; title: HUMANS GENETICALLY MODIFIED WITH THE CRISPR SYSTEM	505; title: WILL BIOTECHNOLOGY HELP US OR MAKE THINGS WORSE?	506; title: TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOT INFALLIBLE	507; title: EDITING MICROORGANISMS	508; title: DESIGNING HUMAN EMBRYOS: WILL THE DREAM OF THE PERFECT CHILD COME TRUE?	508; title: ASTONISHING AND FRIGHTENING APPLICATIONS: IT IS NEITHER SUSTAINABLE NOR REASONABLE TO MAKE EVERYTHING YOU CAN	511; title: GENETICALLY MODIFIED HONEYBEES	516; title: MOSQUITOES HAVE INFLUENCED THE FATE OF MANKIND	519; title: UNNATURAL SELECTION: THE GENETIC CONTROL OF INVASIVE SPECIES OR SPECIES CLASSIFIED AS HARMFUL	522; title: THE FARM WITH THE HUMANIZED GENETIC PROGRAMME	531; title: HABITS THAT ARE DETRIMENTAL TO BEEKEEPING AND AGRICULTURE	533; title: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE LEADS TO A LACK OF NUTRIENTS FOR POLLINATORS	533; title: MIGRATORY BEEKEEPERS: BLIND OPTIMISM AND SELECTIVE DEAFNESS	535; title: THE NOMADISM OF BUMBLEBEES: A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT	536; title: BEEKEEPING DEPLETES THE FOOD RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO OTHER POLLINATORS	537; title: SOME IMPORTANT ENEMIES OF BEES	539; title: MODERN BEEKEEPING PROMOTES THE SPREAD OF DISEASES	541; title: LIMITING NOMADISM	543; title: THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC GENETIC SELECTION REDUCES BIODIVERSITY	545; title: UNNATURAL PRACTICES	549; title: MONETIZING NATURE'S ESSENTIAL SERVICES: A REDUCTIVE AND ANTI-ECOLOGICAL APPROACH	552; title: THE ESSENTIAL POLLINATION SERVICE FOR FOOD SAFETY	552; title: DIFFERENT PLANTS BENEFIT FROM DIFFERENT POLLINATORS	553; title: THE ECONOMIC ESTIMATE OF THE SERVICE PROVIDED BY POLLINATORS	555; title: MONETIZING THE NATURAL CAPITAL IS REDUCTIVE AND DANGEROUS: COMMON GOODS MUST BE PROTECTED	557; title: ANOTHER VISION OF THE WORLD MUST BE POSSIBLE	558; title: DO SOMETHING NEW WITH THE OLD AND IMITATE NATURE	563; title: SIGNALS HAVE BEEN WARNING US FOR SOME TIME	563; title: THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMON GOODS	564; title: HORRORS OF JUDICIAL REPORTING ON BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM ARSENIC	567; title: EXPLORING NEW SOLUTIONS IS A NECESSITY	568; title: BIODIVERSITY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS	569; title: RESTORING AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS TO A SEMI-NATURAL STATE	570; title: INCREASING THE CHANCE OF SURVIVAL OF THE ENEMIES OF CROP PESTS	573; title: ENCOURAGING MOSAIC AGRO-SYSTEMS	574; title: POLYCULTURE IS ECOLOGICALLY BENEFICIAL	575; title: THE ANNUAL CROP ROTATION DOES NOT COMPROMISE THE ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES	576; title: THE SPREAD OF NATURAL CORRIDORS	577; title: IMITATING NATURAL ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSIONS	583; title: CHEMICAL FERTILIZATION FAVOURS CERTAIN CROP PESTS	583; title: REDUCING THE USE OF PESTICIDES	584; title: THE LIMITS OF THE TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION	588; title: AUTHORITATIVE DISCLOSURE THAT IS SCIENTIFICALLY INCOMPLETE AND ETHICALLY INCORRECT	590; title: ORGANIC FARMING HAS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES	591; title: ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE CAN HELP MITIGATE THE CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE	593; title: INTEGRATED AND ORGANIC PRODUCTION IN BEEKEEPING	595; title: MAKE THE COMMUNITY ECO-LITERATE	598; title: THE CONCENTRATION OF FOOD SUPPLY	603; title: LABELLING AND ADVERTISING	604; title: THE GLOBALIZATION OF INDIFFERENCE	606; title: STOPPING THE WHIRLPOOL OF THE INESSENTIAL	609; title: IT IS NOT YET TOO LATE: we are the architects of our own destiny	611; title: THANKS	615; title: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES INDICATED IN THE TEXT	617