From Where I Sit : Essays on Bees, Beekeeping, and Science / Mark L. Winston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winston, Mark L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bee culture.

Honeybee.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 171 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A scientist before he was a beekeeper, Mark L. Winston found in his new hobby a paradigm for understanding the role science should play in society. In essays originally appearing as columns in Bee Culture, the leading professional journal, Winston uses beekeeping as a starting point to discuss broader issues, such as how agriculture functions under increasingly complex social and environmental restraints, how scientists grapple with issues of accountability, and how people struggle to maintain contact with the natural world. Winston's reflections on bees, beekeeping, and science cover a period of tumultuous change in North America, a time when new parasites, reduced research funding, and changing economic conditions have disrupted the livelihoods of bee farmers."Managed honeybees in the city provide a major public service by pollinating gardens, fruit trees, and berry bushes, and should be encouraged rather than legislated out of existence. Our cities, groomed and cosmopolitan as they appear, still obey the basic rules of nature, and our gardens and yards are no exception. Homegrown squashes, apple trees, raspberries, peas, beans, and other garden crops require bees to move the pollen from one flower to another, no matter how urbanized or sophisticated the neighborhood."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One.Thinking About Bees

1. Bees In The City

2. Feral Bees

3. Feral Bees II

4. Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

5. Bee Bruins

6. Division Of Labor

7. Bee Metaphysics And Mr. Spook

Part Two.In Sickness And In Health

8. Hybrid Bees

9. Let'S Do Lunch

10. Pesticide Resistance

11. Billions Of Pounds

12. Semiochemicals And Varroa

13. Killer Bee Killers

14. Bee Nutrition: A Dead Science?

15. Tracheal Mite Research: The Next Generation

16. Mite Load

17. Beekeeping And Snake Oil

18. Bee Flu

Part Three Industry Politics

19. Finding Dirty Honey

20. Border Closure

21. Government, Queens, And Brother Adam

22. Positions

Part Four .Life In The Research Lane

23. Payback Time

24. The Bottom Line

25. Peer Review

26. Behavioral Ecology

27. Things I'll Never See

28. Recombined Bees

29. The Business Of Research

30. How Do We Know That?

31. Consulting

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1156-3

OCLC:

1080551145