Bees are marvellous creatures!. They have survived for millions of years without the assistance of human beings. The most powerful varieties are adapted to the environment in their struggle for life under the terms of natural selection (Darwinism). They are hard workers and play an important and essential role in Nature, more so than one can think or imagine. All the products of the hive are natural elixirs for humans: wax, honey, royal jelly, propolis, venom.

In our world of fast and perpetual evolution, it is important to be able to keep the interest of rising generations in bee-keeping. It's ancestral techniques sometimes can appear exceeded, becoming a major risk factor for the perennial and the survival of agriculture. Indeed, if the number of bee-keepers is reduced more and more, how can we guarantee pollination up to now assured by bees?

At first glance, it is only one insect species which is likely to disappear, but it can become a major environmental catastrophe when it is announced. Wasn’t it Albert Einstein who had already stated that humanity would not survive more than four years with the disappearance of bees?

Man has interest to be engaged with nature and try to help avoid the occurrence of this catastrophic scenario. For that we might build some of the first steps:

• To teach children respect for the environment to avoid in presenting bee-keepers as opportunists in the work of hives and to promote them as guardians of nature instead.
• To develop material in making the bee-keeper's work easier and more effective to show the farmers and landscape designers that bee-keepers constitute for them essential allies.  Knowing that the amount of bee-keepers is dramatically reduced; the hope in seeing increasing numbers seems illusory.

On the contrary, the future risk is being marked by a concentration of the production in the hands of a much reduced number of these workers. To reduce the harmful input of chemical pesticides, man must investigate the effect of biological products on the environment. We must be aware of the steps we have to follow for future homologation of this bio-products, necessary in any field research trial. This is why it is of primary importance to test bio-products on non-target insects. Because of its importance on an ecological and economic level, bees are excellent non-target organisms.

However, man must respect the social structure implied on a hive and place the bees under closest conditions to their natural environment, hence to observe the swarm not as a whole of identical individuals independent from/to each other, but as a diffuse organization. The Queen is a precious treasure for bee-keepers, the use of the Queen Mandibular Pheromone (QMP) on research with experimental hives is essential. The QMP-- the only pheromone (or semio-chemical) chemically identified in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen-- makes possible to keep the cohesion of the population, to block the ovarian development of workers and to preserve the capacities of altruism of these insects.

More research and interest on bees are essential on the crazy weird industrialized world we live. Now that Man thinks he knows everything, he has also mastered the art of destroying nature. When a situation is so unprecedented that no amount of knowledge or experience is adequate to master it, then the ignorant and inexperienced are fit to deal with it than the learned and experienced.