POBee 108.1 - Exploration Bee-gins!
But the Third of the Sixth was not the only one about to fly to their destiny. The joint hive of the Orchard was a flurry of activity. A large group of bees gathered at the front of the hive, including several newly born soldiers and a new communer, a contingent of workers, and all of the scouts who normally would have spread out beyond the Tower. And, of course, the two queens and the communer. The communer was scrambling around the ground, moving as fast as her legs and wings would carry her as she kept brushing different bees with her antennae.
“Ok, have soldiers?”
The Fourth of the Seventh followed her.
“Yes!”
“Workers to build mini-hive?”
“Yes!”
“Have honey for trip?”
The Fourth of the Seventh crawled over to a piece of honeycomb, which was being tied by many smaller ropes to the worker bees.
“Yes!”