The quest for the perfect hive : a history of innovation in bee culture / Gene Kritsky.

Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year business. But the invaluable honey bee now faces severe threats from diseases, mites, pesticides, and overwork, not to mention the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes seemingly healthy bees to abandon their hives en masse, never to return....

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Kritsky, Gene
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Bee culture > History. Beehives > History. Bee culture. Beehives. History.