Bees Need a Break

Have you heard of Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD? It's a type of repetitive stress disorder affecting honey bees.

For a while now worker bees have been rising up in solidarity and flying off the job site. The buzz has been that they've been wanting more ergonomic working conditions but management, with their queen bee attitude, has denied it. In protest worker bees have been leaving the hive in droves, going on a hunger strike and dieing.

Now "The Bee" has set their union busting PR machine in motion. A recent "study" on Colony Collapse Disorder claims that this behavior is actually caused by a virus. As if we would believe that. The truth is out there and the workers will be heard.

It is true that a lack of working bees could prove economically devastating to the agricultural sector. But that's why the worker has the power. Give into their demands (longer breaks, wing supports, and ergonomic honey combs) and they'll stay on the job.

In more bee news, 3,000 year old bee hives have been unearthed at an archaeological site in Israel.