Dead Bees Don't Make Honey by Theresa J. Martin beekeeping and navigate together—as a swirling

and navigate together—as a swirling cloud of bees—to their new home

and identifying them is a challenging task even for taxonomists

many beekeepers still lose their colonies each year

we’ve even sent bees into space and watched as they adjusted to microgravity

Dead Bees Don't Make Honey by Theresa J. Martin beekeeping and navigate together—as a swirlingAre you a beekeeper who desires higher colony survival and more honey? On average, U. S. beekeepers lose nearly half of their honey bee colonies each year. Conventional beekeeping methods no longer adequately support the health of managed colonies in the age of deadly Varroa destructor, pesticide exposure, and diminishing natural forage. The bees themselves reveal the solution to this crisis. Recent science explains how wild bees survive, despite