The Last Beekeeper "If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?"

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Have you ever seen a lazy bee?' asks beekeeper Jim Robertson. Bees have worked tirelessly for man for centuries. But now they are vanishing.

Wrangling with the enormity of this loss, "The Last Beekeeper" follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (from South Carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of one year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. As they all take their bees to California's enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires the presence of almost every bee in the US) it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind that they are in.

"If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?" asks Matt Hutchins . It's not just a question for the beekeepers, it's a question

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