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When approaching the hive, walk up from the back. Approaching from the front, through the bees’ landing zone, breaks the flight pattern of the bees, making them aggressive. Removing the Covers
John London • Beekeeping: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide on Colony Building and Maintenance!
The final role of their lives is to go out foraging, because this is the most dangerous task of all, and older bees are expendable.
Katherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
But their lives are also full of stark efficiencies. In the middle of winter, the area around my favourite beehive is littered with the corpses of the bees that were no longer useful—the most expendable, who were sent on the dangerous mission of foraging; the male drones who were ejected from the hive at the end of their useful lives.
Katherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
The attack at Ypres was overseen by the father of this new method of war, the Jewish chemist Fritz Haber.
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
Hives can be very complex social structures, containing many different kinds of workers, such as harvesters, nurses and cleaners. But so far researchers have failed to locate lawyer bees. Bees don’t need lawyers, because there is no danger that they might forget or violate the hive constitution.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them): From Honeybee Democracy (Princeton Shorts)
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