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The Honey Trap

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Science
Unabridged   5 hour(s)
Publication date: 01/28/2025

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The Honey Trap

How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696617888

Summary

In The Honey Trap, scientist and author Dana Church unravels the complexities of human interactions with our winged friends and demonstrates how dangerously selfish our thinking can be. It's a wake-up call for humanity to embrace sustainable practices and protect these vital pollinators before it's too late.

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The last decade has seen an explosion of urban beekeeping in the US, Canada, and Europe, a well-intentioned response to perceived threats to the global honey bee population. Many thousands of people have taken up this seemingly environmentally friendly hobby, tending backyard and rooftop hives (or paying a company to do so) and encouraging honey bees to make honey and pollinate flowers. What could be wrong with that?

Quite a lot, in fact. In The Honey Trap, scientist and author Dana Church demonstrates that despite reports to the contrary, honey bees are nowhere near extinction. Rather, their nurturing by urban beekeepers is having far-reaching and potentially devastating consequences for the 19,999 other species of bees on the planet, with knock-on effects for plants, both cultivated and wild, and our ecosystems more generally.

With engaging storytelling and a wealth of knowledge about bees and their ways, Church unravels the complexities of human interactions with our winged friends and demonstrates how dangerously selfish our thinking can be. It's a wake-up call for humanity to embrace sustainable practices and protect these vital pollinators before it's too late.

Author Bio

Dana L. Church, an author with a PhD in animal cognition, merges her passion for animals with a talent for storytelling to make science accessible for all ages. Her debut book, The Beekeepers, was published in 2021 by Scholastic Focus and explores the intricate relationship between humans and bumble bees.