Spring morning. The queen is laying. The clover is open.
First flight
Cap a glowing cell with honey. On the meadow, put more bees on the clover — nurses eat bee bread faster than a thin dance replaces it.
The superorganism
Nectar becomes honey only if the fanners keep the water out. Nurses burn bee bread into brood and, once the glands are drawn, into royal jelly. Honey pays for wax, wings, and winter.
Focus
Mites are a whisper. They will not stay that way.
Caste rations
Jelly feeds the next bodies. These ranks last until the swarm. The daughter still costs 150.
Nurse ration · 0/3
Each rank adds 8% jelly from the same nurses. The glands start paying for themselves.
Forager ration · 0/3
Each rank adds 4% crop load. This is how a short, loud bloom gets met.
Heater ration · 0/3
Each rank cuts the honey spent on shivering by 8%. Buy it before the frost.
Ancestral hive memory · 0 swarms
Lineage · 0
Cap the comb, hoard honey, and spend royal jelly on a daughter. Vitrified cells pay their level, and the adults pay their number. Every four levels of locked wax is a lineage point. Every 500 adults is a lineage point. The departure carries one more.
Vitrified depth 0 · 980 adults · this departure +2
Hygienic Genotype · 0/3
Daughters uncap sick brood without being asked. Mites and winter losses ease.
Cold-Resistant Thorax · 0/3
Heater bees spend less honey per degree. Frost becomes a season, not a verdict.
Sunlight Memory · 0/1
Scouts remember perennial bearings. Discovered patches survive the swarm.
Ancestral Diligence · 0/3
Task handoff is in the blood. Every conversion runs a little truer.
Deeper Crop · 0/3
Foragers are born with a larger honey stomach.
Hollow log
- Spring morning. The queen is laying. The clover is open.
Comb index
This browser keeps the wax
The colony is remembered here. Abandoning starts a new hollow with no lineage.