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Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them

byJennie Durant

Jennie Durant investigates the industrial agricultural system that depends on honey bees while exposing colonies and beekeepers to growing danger. She follows commercial pollination, pesticide use, monoculture, disease, migration, breeding, and the economics that move millions of hives across vast distances. Farmers, scientists, regulators, and beekeepers reveal how short-term crop productivity can undermine the insects required to sustain it. The book shows that the bee crisis is not a single mysterious collapse but a web of policy and market choices, and it explores reforms capable of protecting pollinators and food production together.

Publisher

Island Press

Publication date

2026-05-26

Format

Hardcover

Pages

248

ISBN

9781642834000