A half-dozen anonymous workers scout ahead to check possible hive locations in hollow trees or wall cavities.
Housed in a tiny storeroom at BC Women's Hospital, the milk bank is a hive of activity.
When bees from a healthy hive visited the same flowers previously visited by sick bumblebees, the colony contracted the virus within a week, the team found.
She has no idea that hundreds of workers in other parts of the hive are doing the same thing at the same time to the benefit of the next generation.
I will hole you like a hive if you dare to touch my wife once.
A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!
At exactly 3:15 p.m. New York time - a precise 24 hours after having been fed in Paris - the bees swarmed out of their hive.
Ants, too, have hive mind.
Our memories (and our hive minds) are created in the same indistinct, haphazard way.
"Just like bees in a hive, Strategic Hotels is industrious, hard working, and willing to use its stinger when necessary," says CEO Laurence Geller.
By definition their collective hive mind must transcend their small bee minds.
Think about a honeybee as she walks around inside the hive. If a cold wind hits the hive, she'll shiver to generate heat and, in the process, help to warm the nearby brood.
The parts are tiny bits of evidence scattered sparsely through the hive of my brain: a record of cold shivering, of a bumpy ride somewhere, of many sightings of stars, of hitchhiking.
"The hive chooses," is the disarming answer of William Morton Wheeler, a natural philosopher and entomologist of the old school, who founded the field of social insects.
He came down holding the hive at arm's length, behind which trailed a cloud of bees.
The most important member of any hive is the queen bee.
First, they open the hive and lull the bees with smoke. It makes them calmer and less aggressive.
What's more mysterious is that the "divine" number equals your height divided by the height of your torso, and even weirder, the ratio of female bees to male bees in a typical hive! (Livio)!
One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress.
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