DALTON HIGHWAY, Alaska — “To bees, time is honey.” — Bernd Heinrich, “Bumblebee Economics”
One hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, by the side of a dusty road, two women in anti-mosquito head nets peer at a queen bumblebee buzzing furiously in a plastic tube.
“I think it’s the biggest bumblebee I’ve caught in my life!” Kristal Watrous says. S. Hollis Woodard looks at the prize and says, “It’s the biggest frigging bumblebee I’ve ever seen in my life!”
