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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 638.15
EAN: 9781596915374
ISBN: 1596915374
Label: Bloomsbury USA
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Sales Rank: 15273
Studio: Bloomsbury USA
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How the disappearance of the world’s honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk.
Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when “there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.” The fruitless fall nearly became a reality last year when beekeepers watched one third of the honeybee population—thirty billion bees—mysteriously die. The deaths have continued in 2008. Rowan Jacobsen uses the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder to tell the bigger story of bees and their’ essential connection to our daily lives. With their disappearance, we won’t just be losing honey. Industrial agriculture depends on the honeybee to pollinate most fruits, nuts, and vegetables—one third of American crops. Yet this system is falling apart. The number of these professional pollinators has become so inadequate that they are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse. By exploring the causes of CCD and the even more chilling decline of wild pollinators, Fruitless Fall does more than just highlight this growing agricultural crisis. It emphasizes the miracle of flowering plants and their pollination partners, and urges readers not to take for granted the Edenic garden Homo sapiens has played in since birth. Our world could have been utterly different—and may be still.
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This book has rudimentaty bee-keeping information , but I enjoyed his description and interviews with old-time beekeepers.
After reading his book I still did not grasp what exactly is the cause. Hand-waving of agri-chemicals..... But I appreciate hsi ambiguity.
Our bees disapeared all of sudden two years ago. We live in a subburb, so the chances of being over-dose on agri-chemcial is low, but the bees just left one year. We did not harvest honey for two years.
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If there's no pollination, there's no fruit and that time is approaching as commercial bee-keepers chart that one third of the world's entire bee population had mysteriously died last year. FRUITLESS FALL tells the larger story of why bees are key to our lives and provides a wide-ranging story of beekeeping methods, cause of bee deaths, common myths, and the solutions to keeping bee populations healthy. Any natural history library needs this.
Diane C. Donovan
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This book was highly informative looking at many aspects of what may or may not have contributed to CCD. Like someone else said, it is scary. Very well written and a great read.
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A former co-worker of mine turned me onto the amazing world of honey bees and at one time mentioned the unexplained disappearance of bees throughout the U.S. I had no idea the problem was this severe and that the outlook appears to be rather grim, unless proper steps are taken today to protect the future.
The author does a fantastic job of outlining the problem and possible causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) as well as providing a glimpse into the frightening world of global agriculture.
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For several years, I've been hearing about the decline in honeybee populations around the world - but haven't heard the reason why. (Although I studied entomology in college, it's been years since my days were dedicated to following the lives of insects.) Fruitless Fall enlightened me to what's been going on (or sadly, not going on) in hives across the world. Along the way, it educated me about the history, art, and science of beekeeping, and clarified the unique & vital role honeybees play in the pollination ... Read More
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