Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bees as Indicator Species
1 Honey Business
Gallery 1 Child Mind: The Art of Sibylle Peretti
2 Searching for the Bees of Guangxi and Sichuan
Gallery 2 The Microscopic Sublime: The Art of Rose-Lynn Fisher
3 Bullroarers, Elephants, and Honeybees
Gallery 3Making Sense of Bees: The Art of Kim Gurney
4 Killing Bees to Save Them: The Heartbreak of Experimental Design
Gallery 4 Mourning the Dead: The Art of Sarah Hatton
5 The Farmer, the Blueberry, and the Bee: An Unusual Love Triangle
Gallery 5 Techno Bees: The Art of Elizabeth Goluch
6 For the Love of Lawns
Gallery 6 Trespass: The Art of Aganetha Dyck
7 Guard Bee: Storying Resilience
Gallery 7 The Art of Resistance: The Beehive Design Collective
8 A Different Kind of Buzz: Mirth as a Form of Resistance
Gallery 8 Bee Renaissance: The Art of Lea Bradovich
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Heather Swan is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she teaches environmental literature and writing. She is also a beekeeper.
“This book is pure gold. To understand the life around us is
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dispensable because there seems to be so many of them. If you know
people with that opinion, please give them this book because it can
change their minds.”—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,author of The Hidden
Life of Dogs
“Where Honeybees Thrive isn’t a book for people only interested in
the practice of beekeeping, nor for left-brain theorists or
right-brain dreamers. It is for readers who find themselves adrift
in the middle space, never entirely here nor there, searching for
tranquility amid the hum.”—Joe Phillips Minding Nature
“A beautifully written and original approach to the crucially
important and still underappreciated problem of bee decline in the
modern world. With a lyrical, searching style that recalls the best
of Annie Dillard, Swan argues eloquently and persuasively both for
the urgent need to intervene in this global crisis and for the
myriad ways in which mindfulness about bees can help human beings
understand themselves more deeply.”—Eric C. Brown,editor of Insect
Poetics
“Anyone who likes honeybees, or is even afraid of honeybees, will
find this book fascinating and infectious. The author carries us on
a glorious journey into the lives of honeybees and the people who
keep and cherish them. The story is woven with passion and a lively
blend of prose, poetry, art, and philosophy—it is part love song,
part lament, part quest, and entirely engaging. Just as Rachel
Carson dramatized the plight of our environment in the face of
modern chemicals, Heather Swan portrays the plight of bees in light
of modern agricultural practices and insecticides. Where Honeybees
Thrive is a must-read for lovers of nature, bees, and
books.”—Justin O. Schmidt,author of The Sting of the Wild
“A very special and encouraging book—a great gift for anyone with
concern for bees.”—Bees for Development Journal
“I suggest you kick back with a glass of mead as you savor the
storytelling of master beekeeper and bee lover Heather Swan. This
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are not likely to find anywhere else.”—Stephen Buchmann The
Quarterly Review of Biology
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