If you haven't read Dr. Jay Hosler's Clan Apis , it's my pick for the Best Limited Series Eisner. When I was doing my under grad degree, I had one particularly tough semester with a bio-chem. Obviously, I needed an elective that wasn't going to take up too much of my time. So, I signed up for apiculture the study of the honeybee. However, in a rarity for the junk I took at university, apiculture was actually pretty interesting.
Bees are really very fascinating.
Jay Hosler definitely thinks so he's got a Ph.D. in neurophysiology and neuroethology and is currently doing postdoctoral research on olfactory learning in the honeybee. While doing all that, he also managed to produce a comic book that could've been used as a reference in the paper I had to submit for that apiculture course. And it's brilliant throughout for so many reasons. It has action, adventure, drama, humour, life, death, joy, sadness and most importantly, it's all entirely scientific truth. In a vein that is often spoken of, yet rarely investigated in the comic world, Dr. Hosler uses Clan Apis to educate.