Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.
About the Author
Stephen L. Buchmann is research entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center and adjunct professor at the University of Arizona.
The Forgotten Pollinators is the centerpiece of a nationwide campaign sponsored by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum designed to raise awareness of pollinators and threatened plants dependent on them.
Gary Paul Nabhan is director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and author of eight books, including "The Geography of Childhood" and "The Desert Smells Like Rain".
Table of Contents
Foreword \ Edmund O. Wilson
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Remembering the Pollinators
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Chapter 1. Silent Springs and Fruitless Falls
Chapter 2. Flowers
Chapter 3. Pollinators
Chapter 4. The Perils of Matchmaking
Chapter 5. Bees in the Bestiary, Bats in the Belfry
Chapter 6. Fractured Fairy Tales
Chapter 7. Need Nectar, Will Travel
Chapter 8. Holding the Globe in Our Hands
Chapter 9. Keepers of the Flame
Chapter 10. New Bee on the Block
Chapter 11. The Little Lives Keeping Crops Fruitful
Chapter 12. Cultivating Lasting Relationships
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Bibliography
Glossary
Appendix 1: A Call for a National Policy On Pollination
Appendix 2: Pollinators of the Major Crop Plants
Appendix 3: Conservation and Research Organizations
Appendix 4: Sources
Appendix 5: Pollinator Classes for the World's Wild Flowering Plants
Appendix 6: Common Agricultural Pesticides
Index