A honeybee hive is far more than just a buzz of activity. In fact, the social organization inside a nest rivals that in the best-run corporations, with each bee and each cell possessing a rigidly ...

but Blackburn isn’t afraid of handling them — as long as he does it with care. He’s been known to scoop bees by hand into a hive box. “You have to be very gentle and move slowly,” he said.