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Agreeing to manage 50,000 roommates who all have stingers and zero chill.

means The practice of maintaining and managing colonies of honeybees, usually in hives, to produce honey and wax or to pollinate crops.

from The word is a simple compound of 'bee' and 'keeping' — 'keep' here carrying its old sense of 'to tend, guard, or maintain,' the same sense in 'housekeeping' or 'shopkeeper.' The practice itself is ancient, stretching back to early honey-hunting and hollow-log hives, but the plain English word just describes exactly what it is: keeping bees, no disguise needed.

smoke trick
smoke masks alarm pheromones, not just calms them
queen math
she lays up to 2000 eggs a day
honey theft
you take surplus they made for winter, not all of it
sting logic
bees die after stinging you, so they hate doing it too
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