Teenager Bee Keeper On A Mission To Save Bees From Colony Collapse Disorder 

A bright, hyperactive boy named Henry Miller undertook an unusual mission at the age of eleven. The mission was unusual because he was so young and new to country life. His family had moved from urban Los Angeles to a rural spot in Washington State when Henry was ten.
His adopted mission was to contribute to the honey bees survival. He started his own bee keeping and turned it into a family business producing raw honey on their small run down farm outside of Behingham. Washington. Now at 14 years of age, Henry runs a family business producing raw honey. And he contributes part of his profits to the Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees. What a Kid! Lets all hear it for Henry! Henry was inspired by a serendiptious and sudden awareness of colony collapse disorder. When he was eleven, he boarded a plane with his mother and a stranger sat beside him. That stranger was a bee farmer, coincedence, I don't think so. Henry was informed of the bees important role of spreading pollen around to maintain agricultural and wild plant life.
The bee farmer explained how a strange phenomenon called colony collapse disorder was causing bees suddenly to disappear in large numbers in several regions around the world. He told Henry that if all the bees disappeared, in seven years there would be serious problems with the entire food chain.
Butterfly poputations had dropped as well. I can tell that in my own backyard. But the bees were affected worse because they return with polluted pollen to their crowded hives. What are claimed to be sub-lethal toxins accumulate over a short time into lethal levels. France was the first to ban Bayer's toxins in 1999 and their bee populations increased. Naturally Bayer disagrees with that assement.
There is a movement toward more sustainable organic small scale bee keeping letting bees breed and grow naturally. And promoting natural immunity for bees is chosen over killing natural enemies with chemicals.
More bee keeper hobbyists have sprung up recently , promoting honey bee survival by raising a few bees in their own backyards and on apartment building roof tops. And of course, there's Henry Miller