Scientific American’s podcast had an episode on bees, and then magically, the internet’s oldest group blog had a bunch of bee-related posts all in the same day.
Hauling bees around the country is the worst thing we can do to bees but we don’t have a choice — why this is in the ringer, of all places? (source)
Ancient Bee Paintings from 8000 years ago (source)
Hidden in the comments were 2 more finds —
Bee Orchids (XKCD) which is achingly beautiful
Honeybee Democracy - this is mega nerd territory but it really is a sweet book.