World Without Bees - by Allison Benjamin & Brian McCallum (Paperback)

About the Book

An investigation into the mysterious case of the vanishing honeybee.

Book Synopsis

From Los Angeles to London, from Slovenia to Taiwan, honeybees are dying. What is behind the catastrophe? Writers and beekeepers Benjamin and McCallum have traveled across Europe and North America investigating the plight of the honeybee, which is disappearing across the globe at an alarming rate. From commercial almond farmers in California to local honey cultivators in the English countryside, all suffer from lonely hives that are filled with baby bees where all the adults have disappeared. The loss of our black-and-yellow pollinators would mean the end of agriculture as we know it, threatening our civilization and our way of life, as a third of what we eat and much of what we wear is directly dependent on bees. Addressing different causes for this growing catastrophe, A World Without Bees will both enthrall readers and spur them to action. "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left." Albert Einstein"

Review Quotes

The authors of this data-rich study about the mystery of the disappearing honeybee consider an array of contributory causes. But the collapse, they suggest, likely has no single culprit and can be rolled into an overarching reality--stressed honeybees have been pushed to the point of collapse. Benjamin and McCallum, beekeepers both, bring the added emotion and urgency of passionate apiarists.