Article: Most bees live alone: no hives, no honey, but maybe help for crops.(Cover story)

Theresa Pitts-Singer and Cory Vorel give us such friendly smiles that it's almost impossible not to believe them. But their advice on getting a close look at their bees seems nuts. They've led a small group of visitors around a back corner of the home of their bee lab. Dark blurs zip past us as the bees settle down for the night. Vorel passes out otoscopes. For prime viewing, she urges us to position our eyes and a bright light just an inch away from the stinging end of a resting bee, as if we're ear doctors gone off the deep end.

At first we're skeptical. But, in the 20 minutes that we shine our otoscopes into the bees' bedrooms, no one is stung. We're ...

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