“Few&Far wanted our next production to have some type of meaning behind it, since bee’s are extremely diligent but at the same time very small and easily effected by environment changes etc. The honey bee’s are dying at rapid rate enough to effect all world’s food. We felt the best theme for this wall would be Queen Bee’s it carried a lot meaning for us. We work as a solid team as the bee’s do just the same, but in our hive we are all Queen’s!” -M
Sketches for the Queen Bee wall HERE.
In late 2006, something strange began to happen to America’s honeybees. Colonies that were once thriving suddenly went still, almost overnight. The worker bees that make hives run simply disappeared, their bodies never to be found. Over the past couple of years, nearly one-third of all honeybee colonies have collapsed this way, which led to a straightforward name for the phenomenon: colony collapse disorder (CCD).
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1918282,00.html#ixzz1npIGWd23
