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On Beeing

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The History of Bees

Pollination services like the kind that John provides have become such an enormous part of American agriculture. For thousands of years, our relationship with bees was really all about the honey. There are 8,000 year old cave paintings in Spain of people collecting wild honey. Once humans got a taste for honey, they do almost anything to get it.

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