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come-hither look
bred out of garden flowers
bees:  what is that thing

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dandelions
hanging on through January
pollinators sleep

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after the bees died

we pollinated crops by hand

millions starved

ebees, minidrones, saved the day

but I miss honey

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the bee dress scents honey
drafty in here

Tertiary basalt near Bonn Germany

As the molten basalt cools, simple rules of physics control the formation of cracks that are very evenly spaced. The honeycomb effect is obvious. Bees instinctively follow the same rule that temperature does. In the case of bees, hexagons minimize the amount of honeycomb needed.