Aren’t European honey bees, also known as the Western honey bees, an invasive species that put a stress on local populations of native bees? I mean I like bee spit, er Honey, as much as the next guy but are we perhaps putting the European honey bee a little to high on the pedestal? 

Could you use a docking station connected via the USB of the RPi?

Microcenter has them for .99 for the first one, $9.99 for 2-10 and $14.99 each after that.