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.
John O’Neill discusses the problems in conservation policy based upon the identification of ecological value with a particular conception of beauty and wilderness.
Wild Earth 14, no. 3/4, is the last issue of the Wild Earth Journal. It presents essays on connectivity and long-distance migration in human-fragmented landscapes, the Great Bear Rainforest archipelago, and rewilding Patagonia.
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 film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.
Kelsey Green and Franklin Ginn investigate the response to colony collapse disorder (CCD) of a committed group of beekeepers, examining the philosophies and practices of alternative apiculture along two axes: the gifts of honey and poison; longing, connection, and bee-worship.
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”