Takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD.

Contents

Acknowledgments
 

Introduction
 

1 Knowing with Their Eyes? Beekeepers' Understandings of CCD
 

2 Keeping the Research Disciplined: Entomological Understandings of the Controversy over Insecticides
 

3 Bees under the Treadmill of Agriculture: Growers' Responses to Bee Decline
 

4 The Bottom-line for Bayer: Agrochemical Companies and 'Bee Care'
 

5 Regulating Knowledge: The EPA and Pesticide Standards
Coda

Notes

Reference List

Index