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17 Drake J. Agric. L. 597 (2012)
Keeping Bees in the City - Disappearing Bees and the Explosion of Urban Agriculture Inspire Urbanites to Keep Honeybees: Why City Leaders Should Care and What They Should Do about It

handle is hein.journals/dragl17 and id is 629 raw text is: KEEPING BEES IN THE CITY? DISAPPEARING BEES AND THE EXPLOSION OF URBAN AGRICULTURE INSPIRE URBANITES TO KEEP HONEYBEES: WHY CITY LEADERS SHOULD CARE AND WHAT THEY SHOULD DO ABOUT IT Kathryn A. Peters* I. Introduction ............................... ........ 598 II. The Life of Honeybees ............................ ..... 600 A. Life in the Hive ........................ ............... 600 B. Honeybees in Commercial Agriculture ........... ........ 604 C. Honeybees in Urban Agriculture ....................... 610 III. The Disappearance of the Bees................ ................. 614 A. Honeybee Health Pre-Colony Collapse .................... 615 B. Mad Bee Disease .................................. 616 C. The Emergence of Colony Collapse Disorder......... ..... 619 D. Possible Causes of Colony Collapse Disorder........ .......... 621 E. Pesticides and Colony Collapse Disorder........... .............. 624 F. The Role of Federal Pesticide Regulation ........... ...... 628 IV. Keeping Bees in the City? .................... .......... 631 A. Municipal Regulation of Urban Beekeeping ............... 632 B. Case Studies of Beekeeping Ordinances in U.S. Cities ................. 635 C. Passing a Beekeeping Ordinance ................ ....... 637 V. Urban Beekeeping and Liability .............. .............. 639 VI. Conclusion....................... .................. 641 There are certain pursuits which, ifnot wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler andfiner relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. . . . - Henry David Thoreau' * Kathryn A. Peters received her J.D. from the University of Oregon. While earning her J.D., she researched sustainability plans of major U.S. cities, including Portland, OR and Seat- tle, WA. During this time, her interest in urban agriculture and food systems grew. She subse- quently earned her LL.M. in Agricultural & Food Law at the University of Arkansas. Ms. Peters 597

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