The strange case of the vanishing western honeybee has led to fears that we are dangerously out of kilter with nature. This important and compelling book will dramatically examine the environmental, political and economic forces shaping the honeybee's fragile existence - and why the world can't survive without it. If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, not more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Albert Einstein.