Fruitless Fall

FRUITLESS FALL - USA

By Rowan Jacobsen

In 2007 US beekeepers watched as 30 billion bees mysteriously died.

They continue to disappear.

The remaining bees essential to cultivation of a third of American crops are trucked across the country and flown around the world pushing them ever closer to collapse.

The author emphasises the miracle of flowering plants and their pollinating partners urging readers not to take the abundance of our Earth for granted.