The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
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
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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
Meredith May • The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
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
Meredith May • The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Colony Collapse Disorder.
Meredith May • The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
There’s a queen, but no king, I explained, but the queen isn’t the ruler. All the bees work and make decisions together. Bees are loyal and generous, but they also have a brutal side and will toss out the weak, the sick and the males once they become useless to the community.
Meredith May • The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
newer diseases such as Nosema gut pathogen and the Slow Bee Paralysis virus.
Meredith May • The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Her anger was capricious but always guaranteed;
Meredith May • The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Bees don’t like bad breath, either, I continued. Or dark colors, so beekeepers brush their teeth and wear white suits so the bees don’t mistake them for bears.