Useless males haha

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No compassion, but none, in the beehive. Once bee gets weak and can’t contribute in the hive, due to tattered wings, age, whatever, they generally will exit the hive and go die on the ground. If they are too weak for whatever reason, they will be *“balled”, basically claustrophobic closing/choking off their space until they are crushed by other bees. If a bee has to use her stinger, she will die, so this preserves the hive’s numbers.

* Queens who are rejected by the workers/nurse bees will be thusly suffocated