The Pollinator's Ledger
Bees, Data, and the Quiet Unraveling of Global AgricultureBy K. Balachander
Length8h 9m
About this audiobook
Two million trucked-in bees, a vanishing wild world, and the scientists racing to count what’s left.
Every February, two million honey bee colonies roll into California’s Central Valley on flatbed trucks. It is the largest managed pollination event on Earth — and a bet the world can’t afford to lose.
The bees that make it possible are dying. Not in a single dramatic collapse, but in a slow, well-documented erosion tracked year after year by the entomologists and field ecologists who keep the numbers: colony-loss surveys, pesticide assays, bumblebee transects, quiet inventories of species most people have never heard of.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length8 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: “Two Million Colonies”
4Chapter 2: “The Empty Boxes”
5Chapter 3: “Naming the Syndrome”
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6Chapter 4: “A Mite from the East”
7Chapter 5: “The Virus Hunters”
8Chapter 6: “The Beekeeper’s Lament”
9Chapter 7: “A Molecule Called Imidacloprid”
10Chapter 8: “Sublethal”
11Chapter 9: “The Dust at Planting”
12Chapter 10: “The European Verdict”
13Chapter 11: “Breeding a Better Bee”
14Chapter 12: “Beyond the Honey Bee”
15Chapter 13: “Counting What Flies”
16Chapter 14: “The Bee Inventory”
17Chapter 15: “The Bumblebee Survey”
18Chapter 16: “The Rusty Patched”
19Chapter 17: “Searching for Franklin’s”
20Chapter 18: “Who Names the Bees”
21Chapter 19: “The Global Assessment”
22Chapter 20: “The Hungry Landscape”
23Chapter 21: “Spillover”
24Chapter 22: “The Beewashing Problem”
25Chapter 23: “The Climate Vise”
26Chapter 24: “The Pollinator’s Ledger”
27Character Guide
28References & Bibliography
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