An Animal Analogy...
Although bees don't want to get rid
of their children at the end of summer, they want to get rid of their men. The drones - gentle, big-eyed creatures
without a sting - mooch about the hive all spring and summer. They don't look for flowers. They don't help to dry nectar into
honey. They don't feed or look after the
baby bees. Nope. They enjoy the good life, getting fed by the
worker bees and occasionally flying out of the hive to check if there might be a
queen hanging out nearby who is ready for their attentions. If they spot one, they're on her trail right
away, but only a lucky few manage to mate with her on the fly. The unsuccessful suitors buzz their way to
the hive, where they allow themselves to be consoled with a sugary meal. They could live like that forever. However, as summer runs its course, so does
the worker bees' patience with the moochers.
The young queen mated long ago, and her sisters, who have left the hive
in swarms, have also been impregnated.
Winter is slowly approaching and the precious provisions in the hive
have to feed thousand overwintering bees - workers that have managed to survive
to a ripe old age - and the queen.
Nothing has been put a side for the
burdensome drones, and now a hateful chapter in the insects' life cycle
begins. During the late summer drone
massacre, the once pampered little males are rudely grabbed and
unceremoniously shown the odor.
Resistance is useless, even though the drones use their legs to brace
themselves against removal. Clearly they
don't like this one bit, and their senses are on high alert. But any drone that puts up too much of a
fight is simply stung to death. The
workers show no mercy. Any drone left
alive eventually dies an agonizing death from starvation or quickly finds
itself in the stomach of an equally hungry tit.
(Tee Heh, that's a bird, EWS)
"The
Inner Life of ANIMALS", pg
139-140
-Peter Wohlleben
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For Readers' Review;
1) The Bee Hive is a Morman/Masonic theme of social
structure.
2) Is this the reason for managed World Wars in the past,
and future.
3) Is your 26 yr old overweight, video game addict nephew
going to be in the family much longer?
4) Can't you see the purge of useless males in this society
happening now and will only enhance?
5) Isn't it great the workers' finally get their way, huh,
Trotsky?
6) The bars up these ways (that's WI lingo), sure resemble the hive in late summer. Even using
their legs to resist getting thrown out.
7) "They could live like that forever." Ain't
happening.
8) The Queen Bee and her female slaves. Sound familiar?
9) It's drone massacre! Coming to a town near you!
10) Female bees - they are everywhere and they sting.
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Thank you, Jon of Van., BC.
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