BOOK: Healthy bee, sick bee

Healthy bee, sick bee: the influence of parasites, pathogens, predators and pesticides on honey bees

2022

**Lester PJ. 2022. Healthy bee, sick bee: the influence of parasites, pathogens, predators and pesticides on honey bees. Victoria University Press.

ABSTRACT

In this book, entomologist Phil Lester explores the wonderfully complex and sometimes brutally efficient life history of honey bees, and the problems they face in New Zealand and around the globe. What causes a beehive to collapse? Are pesticides as big a problem as they appear? What can we do to improve the health of our honey bees? With intelligence, insight and entomologist jokes, Healthy Bee, Sick Bee tells the story of this much-loved little insect and offers new ways of thinking about how to ensure they will stick around in the future.