[ Claire's such a nerd for these things, and she explains as the walk, launching into how the bees keep the hive cool with their wings, how they kill intruders the same way: by surrounding them and overheating them with all of their collective wing power, the flip side of their good use of power. When she's finished they've made it to four bee houses fenched in only to keep animals and small children from getting too close.
The droning sound is faint, the bees seeming to move at a near constant pace, back and forth from bright wildflowers to the hives. ]
I have four small colonies for now, but new queens will hatch and in theory if I wanted, I could keep building houses.
[ She's rather proud of herself, because she wasn't even sure if she could make the houses at all. ]
i was also on hiatus! <3
[ Claire's such a nerd for these things, and she explains as the walk, launching into how the bees keep the hive cool with their wings, how they kill intruders the same way: by surrounding them and overheating them with all of their collective wing power, the flip side of their good use of power. When she's finished they've made it to four bee houses fenched in only to keep animals and small children from getting too close.
The droning sound is faint, the bees seeming to move at a near constant pace, back and forth from bright wildflowers to the hives. ]
I have four small colonies for now, but new queens will hatch and in theory if I wanted, I could keep building houses.
[ She's rather proud of herself, because she wasn't even sure if she could make the houses at all. ]