More than Honey (2012)

Swiss documentary about how all the bees are dying. Well more precisely it's about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a still only vaguely understood condition that has been effecting a troubling number of western honeybee colonies since at least 2006. It's bad, we are losing a lot of bees, and bees are very vital to life on this planet. In parts of China, as shown in this documentary, bees are basically gone, and now migrant workers are being employed to artificially pollinate orchards, a time consuming and ineffective process. There are some reasons to hope however, honeybees in Australia seem to be doing just fine, and the so called 'killer bees' or Africanized honeybee in the America's appear to be resistant to the condition that is near decimating its domesticated brethren. But beyond all that I was surprised just how little I understood about bees, how they work and the effects generations of human interface in their lives has had on them. This is a well done documentary that has some fascinating information and really beautiful shots of bees in it. Worth seeing if your at all curious about the subject. ***