This amazing prehistoric creature, whose center of origin is eastern tropical Africa, has been the symbol for immortality and resurrection through the ages. It will take bees flying 48,000 miles to gather the pollen needed for the nectar to produce one single quart of honey. Their story is a marvel of evolution, cooperation, and efficiency as queens, workers, and drones work and communicate in the most interesting ways: mating flights; the “tremble dance” performed by returning foragers; the “winter shiver” to keep the queen warm; the upward mobility of a worker as she moves from undertaker, to cleaner, to feeder, to guard, to forager. The sadly short but happy life of a drone who dies at the moment of mating with the queen. And the all-important queen herself, fed only on royal jelly and groomed to lay up to 2,000 eggs per day. Fruits and vegetables needed for mammalian sustenance depend on honeybee pollination, and now, with the horrific Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) accompanied by the death of millions of bees, alarmed scientists around the world are concerning themselves with finding a cure.