START A PETITION 25,136,189 members: the world's largest
community for good Jun 4, 2008  Last Flight of The Honeybee? A
bee-less world wouldn’t just mean the end of honey - Einstein
said that if the honeybee became extinct, then so would mankind.
Alison Benjamin reports on a very real threat  by Alison
Benjamin  Dave Hackenberg’s bees have been on the road for four
days. To reach the almond orchards of California’s Central
Valley, they pass through the fertile plains of the Mississippi,
huge cattle ranches and oilfields in Texas, and the dusty towns
of New Mexico on their 2,600-mile journey from Florida. The bees
will have seen little of the dramatic landscape, being cooped up
in hives stacked four high on the back of trucks. Each truck
carries close to 500 hives, tethered with strong harnesses and
covered with black netting to prevent the millions of passengers
from escaping. When the drivers pull over to sleep, the bees
have a break from the constant movement and wind speed, but
there’s no opportunity to lo