Where Honeybees Thrive

Heather Swan is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she teaches environmental literature and writing. She is also a beekeeper.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bees as Indicator Species1 Honey BusinessGallery 1 Child Mind: The Art of Sibylle Peretti2 Searching for the Bees of Guangxi and SichuanGallery 2 The Microscopic Sublime: The Art of Rose-Lynn Fisher 3 Bullroarers, Elephants, and HoneybeesGallery 3Making Sense of Bees: The Art of Kim Gurney4 Killing Bees to Save Them: The Heartbreak of Experimental DesignGallery 4 Mourning the Dead: The Art of Sarah Hatton5 The Farmer, the Blueberry, and the Bee: An Unusual Love TriangleGallery 5 Techno Bees: The Art of Elizabeth Goluch6 For the Love of LawnsGallery 6 Trespass: The Art of Aganetha Dyck7 Guard Bee: Storying ResilienceGallery 7 The Art of Resistance: The Beehive Design Collective8 A Different Kind of Buzz: Mirth as a Form of ResistanceGallery 8 Bee Renaissance: The Art of Lea Bradovich AfterwordNotesBibliographyCredits

“This book is pure gold. To understand the life around us is perhaps the most important thing we can do for our planet, and Where Honeybees Thrive is a huge step forward. We are too inclined to think that the tiny animals don’t matter, or that they’re 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