Married, divorced, single, students,
worker bees, stay - at - home
moms, active community members, church goers you name it.
In the summer of 2015, Cox showed me several hives that bore the standard signs: healthy brood; good stores of pollen and nectar, or «
bee food,» and little else; a few straggling
workers, maybe 10 percent of the population he had last week; and a big queen, running around her now - empty castle like a
mom, knowing that without her stable of
workers she'll be unable to feed her babies.