Day: July 24, 2026

Anyone who has watched a beehive up close, even through the safety of glass, notices something that upends the simple picture most of us carry in our heads. We tend to imagine a single queen somehow raising the whole colony. She doesn’t. Worker bees feed the larvae, worker bees clean and guard the comb, worker bees regulate the hive’s temperature by fanning their wings in shifts.

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