CBC’s As It Happens published an amusing tale yesterday about a New York Times reporter whose home in the District of Columbia suffered a honeybee invasion. Naturally, being a concerned and intelligent media consumer, she knew that honeybees are essential to agriculture and remembered dimly a chorus of news stories about their potential extinction. It seemed she suddenly had a profound, uninvited ethical challenge in her attic. Her Washington neighbours were of the same mind, and they pleaded with her to seek a non-destructive solution to the infestation.