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

"An ambitious, important, and utterly captivating book.”—Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Replaceable You and Stiff

A revealing investigation into how industrial farming poses a growing threat to America's bees

Each February, a vast yet largely invisible migration takes place across the United States. Semi-trucks stacked high with honey bee colonies head to California’s Central Valley, carrying nearly 99 percent of the nation’s domesticated bees. There, the bees pollinate mill...