The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees

Bees, A Honeyed History, Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski, 2015 Big Sur: Images of America, Jeff Norman and the Big Sur Historical Society, 2004 The Post Ranch: Looking Back at a Community of Family, Friends and Neighbors, Soaring Starkey, 2004 My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur, Romney Steele, 2009

Langstroth’s Hive and the Honey-Bee, L. L. Langstroth, 1853 The Bee: A Natural History, Noah Wilson-Rich, 2014 The Beekeeper’s Lament, Hannah Nordhaus, 2011 The Beekeeper’s Pupil, Sara George, 2002 New Observations on the Natural History of Bees, François Huber, 1806 Field Guide to the Common Bees of California, Gretchen LeBuhn, University of Calif

The Honey Trail: In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees, Grace Pundyk, 2008 Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind, Stephen Buchmann and Banning Repplier, 2005 Honeybee Democracy, Thomas Seeley, 2010 The Life of the Bee, Maurice Maeterlinck, 1901

Further Reading A Book of Bees, Sue Hubbell, 1988 ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, A. I. Root, 1879 The Queen Must Die, William Longgood, 1985

newer diseases such as Nosema gut pathogen and the Slow Bee Paralysis virus.

Varroa destructor mite,

Scientists, beekeepers and activists have since offered a wide range of theories, blaming pesticides or fungicides, migratory beekeeping practices, the parasitic Varroa destructor mite, climate change, habitat loss, monoculture and various honeybee pathogens. While there is some promising research suggesting ways to boost honeybee immunity to withs

Colony Collapse Disorder.

family is a natural resource all around me.