Listening to the bees / Mark L. Winston & Renée Sarojini Saklikar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winston, Mark L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, [2018]

Summary:

"Listening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world? Through the distinct but complementary lenses of science and poetry, Mark Winston and Renée Saklikar reflect on the tension of being an individual living in a society, and about the devastation wrought by overly intensive management of agricultural and urban habitats. Listening to the Bees take readers into the laboratory and out to the field, into the worlds of scientists and beekeepers, and to meetings where the research community intersects with government policy and business. The result is an insiders' view of the way research is conducted-its brilliant potential and its flaws-along with the personal insights and remarkable personalities experienced over a forty-year career that parallels the rise of industrial agriculture."-- Provided by publisher.

Listening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers focusing on their shared interests in bees to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world? -- publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Naturalist Notes

those old photographs

A Fifty-Million-Year-Old Skull

the legend of the bees

The One-Room Schoolhouse

embedded and set

that photograph, framed

Hymenoptera

derived from

one fossil to another

camera lucida

Mouthparts of the Long-tongued Bees

said the beekeeper

labiomaxillary

(Paramelikertes) gujaratensis

Stingless Bees

torn from the book of the great gathering

all along that hedgerow

Cross-Fostered

lines of descent

dance of the bees in the court of the queen of seasons

Party Piece

hollow wax

hexed

Swarming

field notes of the particular

Swarm Team

captured

The Beekeeper's Lament

would not catch

honey-combed &amp

prism

Everything Old Is New Again

bee-raga to Bhramari Devi

Bee Audacious

Crystal City

six-sided cell, where we found her-

Competing Doomsdays

B. impatiens

B. occidentalis

an adaptation for foraging

Mites

o to be in that garden

in hexane

before the start of the experiment

unless specified

again, bio-assays

Packaging Bees

industrial

to shake the bees

hibernacula

Poetry of Science / Science-in-Poetry

notes from the margin (Renée Sarojini)

Fragments

honey for the winter

basis of the retinue

bioassay

all those layers

QMP

scent, her message-

her lovely face

Queenright

and her workers

after the removal

The Poetry of Methodology

glass pseudo-queens

in the court of the honeybee queen

Blueberry

at play in the fields of the queen

a continuum

Apples and Honey

the beekeeper's lament

#1 amounts (ng) of 9-ODA

#2 found body, surface of

#3 mated, those queens after

Gone but Not Forgotten

À moishe (To Mark)

unsealed

Bees in the City

notes from the margin.

strathcona

the way of and found-

garden plots surrounded

o, sing of-

letters left behind, hidden

at the great gate called destruction

that moment in battle when-

Hives for Humanity

notes from the margin

home is where we start from

Listening to the Bees

and the dance most of all

Appendix: The Science

Acknowledgements

Notes

About the authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889711310

0889711313

OCLC:

1293261488