Last week, I found another reason to worry about disappearance of honeybee hives.

Like touring punk bands, bee swarms travel a country pollinating different audiences (more widely in the United States than abroad), and their demanding migratory schedule may be one of many reasons for their rapid decline in recent years–part of a syndrome called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

I’m the more concerned as I just began incorporating local bee pollen into my diet as a supplement and alternative protein:

I’ve dreamt of keeping bees for years, and now, it seems, we all need to become backyard beekeepers to keep the bees. What if the next iterations of guerilla gardening included hiding apiaries? The international greening of rooftops seems an appropriately aerial place to begin.

For more on CCD, you can watch the entire PBS Nature episode “Silence of the Bees.” Mark Molaro interviews filmmaker Doug Schultz here.

Thoughts?

1. Maggie:
   August 14th, 2008 at 10:40 am

   I wonder what fried bee pollen would taste like. Hmmm…

2. Kristen:
   August 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am

   What an intriguing idea, Maggie (everyone, check out Maggie’s wonderful bokehlicious blog and Flickr stream).

   Maybe I’ll toast the bee pollen in homemade butter to top, um, pancakes with local honey? Should silver dollar pancakes be next for kthread cooks?

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