Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
This article addresses the deep history of pest crops and plant diseases in historical agriculture development.
A disease that is now a national symbol of Peru’s medical achievements is the result of a tiny sandfly
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.