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2008-06-03 Hardcover First Edition Near Fine in Near Fine jacket On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a ... chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States. Many beekeepers and some researchers think IMD is the new prime suspect for the devastating syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, which has raised the annual die-off rate of honey bees to 30% of all the beehives in the United States. They say even trace amounts of IMD makes bees lose their desire to feed, which would quickly lead to collapse. After several days, there are few or no bees left in the hive. Since honeybees are essential to the production of fruit, nut, and vegetable crops around the world, their demise could spell catastrophe for our food supply and economy. In a riveting detective story that melds science and politics, Michael Schacker investigates the case o Read more Show Less

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On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States. Many beekeepers and some researchers think IMD is the new prime suspect for the devastating syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, which has raised the annual die-off rate of honey bees to 30% of all the beehives in the United States. They say even trace amounts of IMD make bees lose their desire to feed, which would quickly lead to the collapse of their colony. After several days, there are few or no bees left in the ...

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On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States. Many beekeepers and some researchers think IMD is the new prime suspect for the devastating syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, which has raised the annual die-off rate of honey bees to 30% of all the beehives in the United States. They say even trace amounts of IMD make bees lose their desire to feed, which would quickly lead to the collapse of their colony. After several days, there are few or no bees left in the hive. Since honey bees are essential to the production of fruit, nut, and vegetable crops around the world, their demise could spell catastrophe for our food supply and global economy.

In a riveting detective story that melds science and politics, Michael Schacker investigates the case of the missing bees, examining the many theories on the cause, including cell phones, mites, new pathogens, and bee management. He then examines the evidence against IMD. The book does much more than illuminate the scientific research, however. Using CCD as a metaphor for our own human hive, Schacker asks:  Are the bees trying to tell us something? Could this be the warning sign of a much larger crisis looming directly ahead? Might humankind suffer someday from “Civilization Collapse Disorder”?  And how must we change our human hive in order to ensure its survival?

Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, A Spring without Bees is a compelling cautionary tale and a clarion call for action.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781599214320
  • Publisher: Lyons Press, The
  • Publication date: 6/3/2008
  • Pages: 292
  • Sales rank: 743,588
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Michael Schacker is an investigative science writer and is the founder of The New Earth Institute, a lifelong learning center on the Internet. He has served as a strategic consultant and contract writer in the field of regenerative agriculture, and believes that there is a solution on this Earth for each of our many problems if we but look for them.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 To Bee or Not to Bee 1

2 Colony Collapse Disorder 14

3 The Potential Impact of Colony Collapse Disorder 23

4 It's Not the Cell Phones... 29

5 It's Not the Mites or a Virus... 35

6 The French Say They Know Why 52

7 The Return of the Bees! 68

8 America in the Dark 92

9 Civilization Collapse Disorder 138

10 The Farmer Solution 155

11 Taking Your Home and Lawn Organic 167

12 Organic Golf, Anyone? 182

13 The Beekeeper Solution 193

14 Plant a Bee Garden and They Will Come 204

15 Plan Bee 214

Appendixes

Appendix 1 Notes 230

Appendix 2 Beekeeper Letter to EU Commission 238

Appendix 3 FIFRA Section 18 Exemptions for Imidacloprid (IMD)-EPA 244

Appendix 4 Section 18 of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 257

Appendix 5 Colony Collapse Disorder in the United States 260

Appendix 6 Farmer Solutions 261

Appendix 7 Organic Home and Lawn Solutions 265

Appendix 8 Beekeeper Solutions for Mites and Bee Health 268

Appendix 9 List of Foods Pollinated by Bees 271

Index 273

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  • Posted February 23, 2009

    needed for more than sweetness

    Michael Schacker's A Spring Without Bees is a remarkable, thorough explanation of how the world's bee population has been severely threatened by the use of pesticides. Schacker carefully describes how this sad phenomena has occurred in various parts of the world, and how differently it has been handled in those places. France, for example, has tackled the issue boldly, and has found success. Due to politics in the United States, though, Americans have only found the problem growing worse. I found myself constantly underlining remarks that were alarming (the Bush administration, for instance, really crippled efforts to remedy the problem). I heartily recommend this book: I had started out knowing very little about this situation. I do not consider myself to be of a particularly scientific frame of mind, yet Schaker's words made sense to me. I began to feel more aware, more educated. For those who care about this world and what we leave as our legacy, this is vital information. All of us must learn to appreciate the value of bees, and how their importance extends far beyond that of sweetening products.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 9, 2009

    Insight on CCD

    A well written book for beekeepers and bee enthusiasts. This book was extremely informative on the theories that have been presented on CCD in the past. It is also very informative on the implications of such disease such as varroa mites and other diseases that have been traced through the international sales of bees.
    If you wish to learn about beekeeping and CCD, this is an excellent choice.

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  • Posted January 9, 2009

    IMPORTANT book for our time!

    The information in this book is not only relevent for our world today, but a CALL TO ACTION! With all the predictions of 2012 being the 'end' of our age/human life/world as we know it, (all with famine as part of the cause) we must spread the word and save the source of pollination or doom ourselves, our meat supplies, and plant and animal life on earth!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 19, 2008

    Colony Collapse Disorder and other Bee Die-offs, real causes and solutions

    Michael Schacker's book, 'A Spring Without Bees', is the most important information you could read right now, because disappearing bees are a BIG issue. Siting scientific research from France and Europe and reports from beekeepers in the field, along with numerous other studies, the scattered puzzle pieces are carefully put together to see the whole picture. This is essential to cut through the clutter of misinformation and proposed possible causes of colony collapse disorder. One factor seems to stand out above all the rest--the bee's delicate immune system and nervous system is particularly suspectible to neonicotinoid pesticides, introduced into this country only a few years ago. These neurotoxic pesticides even play a part in making bees more vulnerable to the AIP virus, mites, fungus, stress and the other proposed causes of CCD. Add to this, the finding that fungicides increase the toxicity of these chlorinated nicotines up to 1000 times and other loopholes that allow these pesticides to be used without independent testing and to be use at over 3 times the amount previously allowed by EPA regulations and it becomes clear--the corporate sponsored tests for safety of these chemicals are meaningless. If that isn't bad enough, this class of pesticide builds up in the soil and takes 3 years to breakdown--so even after their use is suspended it will take another 3 years before bees can safely return. Clearly, this is a wake up call. Better read this book so you know what you are putting on your lawn and what your child is crawling around in! Most important, it is the first book to throroughly investigate this problem and present reasonable solutions that are easy to understand and accessible for everyone.

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