Rowan Jacobsen's Fruitless Fall

Rowan Jacobsen’s Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis reminds me of the movie, The Lorax. In the movie, all the trees are cut down to make scarf, and the town becomes an inhabitable place to live. People have to buy oxygen in large gallons. Humans are omnivore, and also we are frugivore. Almost every day, after waking up, brushing my teeth and cleaning my face, I would eat fruit for breakfast: cherries, berries, apple, banana, and any other fruits that I can find in Morris or Alexandria. However, my favorite fruit of all is the king of fruits, the durian. Without bees, there will be no fruits. As Jacobsen (2008) mentioned in Fruitless Fall, most of the plants cannot produce the fruits without insects.
Fruitless Fall tells story of the disappearance of the honey bees due to global agriculture replaces small local agriculture, which leads to many culprits such as virus infections, pesticide, the mixing of multiple chemicals, monoculture crops and antibiotic usage. It is the collapse of the whole system, and honey bees collapse is probably one of the first that we have noticed since the buzzing bees are disappearing. Bees are sick and disappear in China, so they use pesticides and antibiotics on the remaining bees, but that makes problem worse. The Chinese provides cheap honey full with illegal antibiotics such as the chloramphenicol, which is a drug banned in the United States, Canada, and other European countries. China uncertainly, not the only culprits in causing colony collapse disorder (CCD), United States and the rest of the world also have parts in contributing to CCD. The conditions beekeepers provide for the bee workers are stressful, Jacobsen describes the description of how the honey bees have to go through when working in different environment each time they are transferred from coast to coast. Humans, unlike the past, feed their bees with corn syrup, make them travel long distance all around the country to fertilize crops, provide only one kind of flower for them to work with. The commercial beekeepers would apply
Fruitless Fall is written toward the popular audience, and compared to other books I read Fruitless Fall is an easy to read book. It is an important contribution to the Entomology field; it provides more evidence why bees are so important to us and the rest of the animals on the planet. The book reminds me of the movie The Lorax as I mentioned in the beginning, in this movie, people have to buy oxygen from a company after cutting all the trees. Similarly, in Sichuan, China, or in Mexico there are no bees, so the people have to do the pollinating jobs. Again, humans need to treat the bees right and let them handle the work because bees are better at doing these jobs that than us. It is an interesting book and I will recommend other students to read