Author xC0000005 on Kuro5hin.org has been keeping bees and writing about it in his diary. Today he also posted a fascinating story about it, Lessons from the Hive. Check it out.
If you like the story, you will want to read his diary entries. In them he tells how he acquired his honeybee colony and then watched it struggle, grow, produce, decline, and fail, ultimately to be replaced a few days ago by a swarming colony that happened upon his failing colony’s hive - a great stroke of luck.
It’s interesting stuff.