Where Honeybees Thrive
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Where Honeybees Thrive

Stories from the Field

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Where Honeybees Thrive

Stories from the Field

About this book

Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction—these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to—and understand the sources of—the plight of honeybees.

Through a lyrical combination of creative nonfiction and visual imagery, Where Honeybees Thrive tells the stories of the beekeepers, farmers, artists, entomologists, ecologists, and other advocates working to stem the damage and reverse course for this critical pollinator. Using her own quest for understanding as a starting point, Swan highlights the innovative projects and strategies these groups employ. Her mosaic approach to engaging with the environment not only reveals the incredibly complex political ecology in which bees live—which includes human and nonhuman actors alike—but also suggests ways of comprehending and tackling a host of other conflicts between postindustrial society and the natural world. Each chapter closes with an illustrative full-color gallery of bee-related artwork.

A luminous journey from the worlds of honey producers, urban farmers, and mead makers of the United States to those of beekeepers of Sichuan, China, and researchers in southern Africa, Where Honeybees Thrive traces the global web of efforts to secure a sustainable future for honeybees—and ourselves.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER front
  2. Series Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Bees as Indicator Species
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Honey Business
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Gallery 1: Child Mind: The Art of Sibylle Peretti
  11. Chapter 2: Searching for the Bees of Guangxi and Sichuan
  12. Notes to Chapter 2
  13. Gallery 2: The Microscopic Sublime: The Art of Rose-Lynn Fisher
  14. Chapter 3: Bullroarers, Elephants, and Honeybees
  15. Notes on Chapter 3
  16. Gallery 3: Making Sense of Bees: The Art of Kim Gurney
  17. Chapter 4: Killing Bees to Save Them: The Heartbreak of Experimental Design
  18. Notes on Chapter 4
  19. Gallery 4: Mourning the Dead: The Art of Sarah Hatton
  20. Chapter 5: The Farmer, the Blueberry, and the Bee: An Unusual Love Triangle
  21. Notes on Chapter 5
  22. Gallery 5: Techno Bees: The Art of Elizabeth Goluch
  23. Chapter 6: For the Love of Lawns
  24. Notes on Chapter 6
  25. Gallery 6: Trespass: The Art of Aganetha Dyck
  26. Chapter 7: Guard Bee: Storying Resilience
  27. Notes on Chapter 7
  28. Gallery 7: The Art of Resistance: The Beehive Design Collective
  29. Chapter 8: A Different Kind of Buzz: Mirth as a Form of Resistance
  30. Notes on Chapter 8
  31. Gallery 8: Bee Renaissance: The Art of Lea Bradovich
  32. Afterword
  33. Notes
  34. Bibliography
  35. Credits