PEAK BEE POPULATION - COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER

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That Big Rig You're Passing Might Be Full of Bees


Illustration: GMG Art Department/Peter Nelson (The Pollinators)

By Andrew P. Collins
6/25/19 11:40am

There are still cowboys driving livestock across America in 2019. While most of us are snoozing, they’re rolling up to dark fields with trucks full of creatures that are critical to our nation’s agriculture: thousands and thousands of bees.

“Very few people know that this happens, and it happens as a necessity of the way our agriculture’s done,” Apiarist and filmmaker Peter Nelson explained to me. “I see bee trucks when I’m on the road, but most people don’t recognize them because it looks like a truck with boxes covered by a net.”

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