Summary

The U.S. beekeeping industry is experiencing unprecedented losses, with hundreds of millions of bees dying over the past eight months.

Blake Shook, a leading beekeeper, called it “the worst bee loss in recorded history.”

Researchers remain uncertain about the cause, pointing to potential factors like habitat changes and weather patterns.

Beekeeping operations are struggling to survive, raising concerns about food security and the sustainability of crop production.

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    The Earth has moved.

    Gray, aged bees were moving chaotically, struggling to reconstruct the hive how only they remember, were taught to build.

    The resulting pattern of squares, triangles, decahedrones was insane, and seeing this, Roland knew, their hive won’t last long.