Contents

Prologue

The Key of Bee Natural

Keeps the Elephants Away

My Conversion

Deconstructing Bee Construction

First Beehive

Guilt about Indigenous Bees

Less than Infallible

Honey Is Not Bee Vomit

Can't Fly a Straight Bee Line

Balancing the As, Bees, & Cs

How Great Thou Art, Reverend Langstroth!

Harvesting Honey

I'll Follow the Sun

Smell You Later

Bad Honey

Honey from Mars! The Mars Candy Co., That Is

Call Me Five Eyes

Sympathy for the Hexopods

BFF (Bee Friends Forever)

Bees Here Now

The Rise & Fall of an Empire

Even Bugs Get Bugged by Other Bugs

Bees Are a Bad Role Model for Communities

Bees Don't Talk Back

Bum's Rush

Zombie Bee Syndrome???

Buzzin' Cousins

Calm Before the Swarm

The Bee Tree

The Buzz in the Marketplace

Uncooked Honey, Raw, Raw, Raw!

Mead Eaters

Feeling Down?

Hexagon, But Not Begotten

An Audience with the Queen

Busy as a Bee?

Clipped Wings and Prisoner Bees

Stationary Flying Is Very Cool

Interspecies Understanding

Spring Forward, Little Bees? No, Fall Back!

Bee Beards

Apathy for Apitherapy

Got 'Em? Smoke 'Em

Assassination of a Queen

None of Your Beeswax

Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

Epilogue

About the Author

To Our Readers