Chinese Summary/中文概要:
蜂蜜產量減半 敲醒糧食危機及全球80%植物毀滅的警鐘
2011 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award competition third prize!
全球最大的環保議題書籍獎項
如果連蜜蜂都消失 地球會變的如何?
蜂蜜減量漲價 只是邁向毀滅的第一步
科學人雜誌:
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如果連蜜蜂都絕種,地球會變成什麼樣子?
蜂蜜產量減少,價格高漲只是毀滅的第一步。沒有蜜蜂授粉,植物的多樣性會大大減少,糧食也將面臨短缺危機。蜜蜂在生態以及人類生活中扮演的角色遠比我們想像的還吃重。
蜂類專家,加拿大約克大學(York University)生物學教授Laurence Packer不畏寒暑與艱難,到世界各地研究蜂群。他發現蜜蜂有逐漸減少的趨勢,除了氣候變遷之外,人類在作物上噴灑農藥,佔了絕大部份。而地球上百分之八十的植物、人類三分之一的食物都是由蜜蜂授粉,蜜蜂消失將造成不可挽回的嚴重後果!
Contents
1. Buzz Free: A World Without Bees
Stuck Under a Truck in the Atacama Desert, Chile
2. The Future of Our Food
Serenading the Bees on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
3. Honey, Queens, Hard-Working Workers and Stings: Misconceptions about Bees
Stung by Bee Killers on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
4. A Bee or Not a Bee? A Difficult Question to Answer
Insulting the Experts in Portal, Arizona
5. Two Bees or Not Two Bees? An Even More Difficult Question to Answer
Uncovering Irregularities at the National History Museum, London
6. It’s a Bee’s Life
Up Before Dawn in the Australian Outback
7. The Sociable Bee
Digging Nests After Dark in Calgary, Alberta
8. Sex and Death In Bees
Choosing a Mate in Subtropical Florida
9. Where the Bee Sucks, There Hunt
Painful Bee Sampling in the Tehuacan Desert, Mexico
10. Anti-Bees
Sexually Transmitted Child-eating Female Impersonators on a California Sand Dune
11. What Are We Doing To The Bees?
Bee-Free Day in Germany
12. The Proverbial Canaries In The Coal Mine
Upsetting Ornithologists in Rome
13. Help The Bees
Dodging Hippos at the African Pollinator Summit
Epilogue
Bee Worship on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
(Eva)