The Bear Guarding the Beehive

by Stephanie C Fox

Overview

This is an allegorical tale of honeybee colony collapse, and the threat that poses to the Earth's ecosystem.

The bees are in terrible trouble.

They need a good lawyer - one who is on their side.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful country called Oblivion.

It had everything growing in it to make its people happy and healthy: raspberries, almonds, peaches, apricots, blueberries, cranberries, lavender, thyme, irises, roses, tulips, daffodils...the list seemed endless.

But it did end, because some of the Thieves of Oblivion wanted to sell all of these wonderful things, and to force Nature to produce more and more and more of them.

These Thieves, running a corporation called BearGenics, had a conflict of interest with Nature. They tampered with the genetics of crop plants.

They never gave a thought to the fact that without honey bees, none of these plants would grow. The Thieves poisoned the plants, and in so doing, poisoned the honey bees.

That's what happens when you leave the bear guarding the beehive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999639542
Publisher:	Queenbeebooks
Publication date:	11/18/2017
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Stephanie C. Fox, J.D. is a historian, author, editor, and publisher. She is a graduate of William Smith College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. She runs an editing service called QueenBeeEdit, which caters to politicians, scientists, and others. Her imprint is QueenBeeBooks. Ms. Fox has written several books on a variety of topics, including the effects of human overpopulation on the environment, Asperger's, and travel to Kuwait and Hawai'i. Her areas of interest include - but are not limited to - history, herstory, women's studies, biographies, dystopian and science fiction, human overpopulation, ecosystems collapse, law, international relations, the history of chemical weapons use in war, the economic meltdown of 2008, honeybee colony collapse disorder, Asperger's, and cats.

Table of Contents

A Conflict of Interest

Beauty and the Bees

Healthy Honey Bees – An Illustration in Words

Communing with the Honey Bees

In Memoriam to the Bees

Pestituted

BearGenics and Natural Manipulators

The Founding Mother

Nature is Not the Enemy

Queening and Re-Queening

Stress and Constant Travel

Systemic Insecticides

Lost in Transit

Nosema – Gut Mold

Mites and Other Parasites

Drought

Colony Collapse Disorder

Beekeepers’ Empty Hives

The Fairy Tale Princess’s Fruit

Differing Burdens and Standards

Toxic Until Proven Innocent

The Wisdom of the Land of the Fleur-de-Lis

Preemptive Pressure Pointing

The Sectionate List-Makers

Engineered Static

You Can’t Eat Money

We’re in So Much Trouble

The End – Suicide by Insecticides

The End – The Bees are Saved

Appendices of Antidotes

Appendix – Beekeeping in Cities

Appendix – Home Gardens for Honey Bees

Appendix – Small, Diversified Crops

Appendix – Voting with Forks

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

About the Author