Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them

"An ambitious, important, and utterly captivating book.”-Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Replaceable You and StiffA revealing investigation into how industrial farming poses a growing threat to America's beesEach February, a vast yet largely invisible migration takes place across the United States.Semi-trucks stacked high with honey bee colonies head to California’s Central Valley, carrying nearly 99 percent of the nation’s domesticated bees.There, the bees pollinate millions of acres of blooming almond orchards before fanning out across the country for apples, berries, and other crops.This massive undertaking sustains both beekeepers and farmers-but it comes at a heavy price. In Bitter Honey, Jennie Durant takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the human and ecological cost of industrial farming for bees, beekeepers, and all of us who depend on them.Bees today face a gauntlet of threats: parasites and disease, pesticide exposure, and climate extremes-all magnified