Furthermore, Heaf was also the one behind the English translation of Abbé Warré’s French book entitled “Beekeeping For All” which mentioned a lot about “'The People's Hive”.

There are only three geometrical figures with equal sides that can fit together on a flat surface without leaving any gaps: equilateral squares, triangles, and hexagons.

Varro’s mathematical guess proposed that a structure built from hexagons is probably more compact than structures made out of triangles or squares. He thought that a hexagonal honeycomb would have the smallest total parameter. 

When it comes to honeycombs, the more compact the structure, the less wax is needed to construct it. Wax is expensive. A bee must consume about eight ounces of honey to produce a single ounce of wax. Therefore, compactness matters.

The worker bees, which are responsible for the pollination and creation of wax inside the beehive, are female bees that are unable to reproduce. In a study conducted by Grozinger et al. (2016), it has been proposed that the dominating genes in the worker bees are the genes from their mother, the queen, which can be referred to as the matrigenes. These genes allow them, the worker bees, to be altruistic by refraining reproduction as it is the role of the queen.

In cases where a hive does not have a queen, the workers then contend with one another to replace the queen and lay eggs. This behavior of the worker bees came from the patrigenes, or the genes inherited from their father.

Through this study, it has been proposed that an intragenomic conflict actually occurs among bees, which in turn support kin selection theory. 

Scientists have said that CCD is potentially the reason why populations of bees kept on disappearing and eventually have become extinct worldwide. Countless theories have been made regarding the causes of this phenomena which resulted from a combination of several factors including  electromagnetic radiation, chemical pesticides, human interaction, and global changes.

Researchers theorized that bees stress over electromagnetic radiation exposure due to the hypotheses regarding it to interfere with the bees’ system of navigation. The rise of electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere was caused by the increasing numbers of wireless communication towers and mobile phones. Hence, the bee population has been placed in a tough situation and dramatically decreased in their population and reproduction.

In recent years, honeybees have also been undergoing immune-suppressing stress as beekeepers continue to transport them to multiple locations all over the world to promote pollination services. Therefore, they are suffering from the effects of an unhealthy diet in which a number of their natural food sources have been added with poisonous chemicals, such as artificial supplements, herbicides and pesticides, ingested by them. Genetically modified crops, producing pollen with poor nutritional value, fed on by bees is another suspect of the collapse in their population.

Consequently, unusual fluctuations in weather patterns on which experts have thought to cause global warming may also be affecting bees and their reproduction. Bees are more used to consistent patterns of weather but due to climate change, their population faces a serious environmental threat.

Although there are more theories currently being researched and studied by scientists, a combination of these factors could be the major leading causes of Colony Collapse Disorder or the disappearance of bee colonies.

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Natural beekeeping, sometimes known as 'bee-friendly' or 'api-centric beekeeping,' is on the rise in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. This has led to the development of several types of hives designed to allow the bees to create natural combs.

Such innovations and advancements come in parallel for the people and the world to progress in a much more sustainable manner, and this will progress more in the future if we continue to find ways to keep this mutualistic relationship we have with bees and the environment in general.