"An exploration of the life cycle of bees and how they construct hives and make honey."--

Introduces bees and beekeeping, covering such aspects as pollination, the making of honey, and beekeeping equipment and practices.

Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.