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New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees

New Scientist · May 20, 2026, 6:00 PM

Why this matters: new research or scientific developments with potential real-world impact.

Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures?

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