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How to use hive in a sentence

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There is usually one queen bee and some 40,000 to 50,000 worker bees per hive in summertime.
When reassembling the hive, smoke the bees so that they move down and pause slightly before replacing hive bodies or covers.
A honeybee hive occasionally inhabits the top of the tower right next to the diaphone itself.
Our scientists surmised that the bulk of any emotional consideration was left to the queens, who ruled the Zylon like a queen bee does her hive.
The Skorpion project has brought a hive of economic activities to the economically depressed southern Namibia.
A swarm of bees cooperates to construct a hive. Humans group together to build towns, cities, and nations.
A hive of activity is taking place away from the public eye at the new Commonwealth Games stadium.
It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
Bees carry pollen, nectar, or both, as well as propolis or water, back to the hive.
He explained that a hive of bees consists of a queen bee, a few hundred drone bees and the remainder are workers.
The High Street also becomes a hive of activity as cafe society comes to town.
Nurse bees are special worker bees that attend the queen and the babies, or larvae, of the hive.
The fly then emerges from its host, ready to infect other members of the hive.
He also developed a double wall insulated hive box and was one of the first to try splitting nests as a propagation technique.
Because flowering plants vary from region to region and bees rarely stray far from the hive, the pollen print provides a sort of geocode.
At about 3 weeks of age workers leave the hive as foragers who gather pollen and nectar and are exposed to a more variable environment.
Humanity becomes a single hive mind, with a group intelligence, as geography becomes putty in the hands of the Internet sculptor.
When a honeybee colony requires a new hive site, honeybee scouts search for a cavity of suitable location, dryness, and size.
You can just let your hive sit and wait for bees and you will have scout bees.
But how does a modern government control the hive mind without television and radio?
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Raf wondered if those who had built them had not been humanoid at all, but perhaps insects with a hive mind.
I once knew a colony to leave the hive under such circumstances, on a springlike day in December!
How many then can there be in a hive at any one time, in just the right stage of development to receive the fatal chill?
These apiarian battles are often fought in defence of the property of the hive.
The Caban form in connnection with the hive in fig. 10 may have some phonetic signifiance as kab is honey in Maya.
Like his companion, this insect rose and encircled the stump several times, ere it darted away toward its hive, in an air-line.
The changer of the hive should be made perfectly tight, so as to exclude all light from the drawers.
These two-sided combs descend from the roof of the hive in parallel series, their thickness being about half an inch.
It knows how to do it as well as bees know how to ventilate the hive, or how to seal up or entomb the grub of an invading moth.
Six little Indians stole honey from a hive, A busy bee got after one and then there were but five.
When passing the hive our olfactories are saluted with a nauseous effluvia, arising from this corrupting mass.
The entrance to the hive should be closed with wire cloth after the bees all get home in the early evening.
First, the old-fashioned plan of keeping the bees in a common bell-shaped straw hive, or skep.
The operating-room was a hive of industry, and tongues kept pace with fingers.
Another way is to invert the hive in which the united swarms are to live, and strike the bees of the other hive into it as before.
If any bees remain in the box when taken away, a little smoke will drive them out, and they will quickly return to their own hive.
When they had made everything strong and secure, they went to the top of the comb and reattached it to the ceiling of the hive.
If something gets into the hive that can't be carried out, then the bees cover it up with propolis.
But, as there is no natural ruler of the hive, they meet together and make laws.
And Damascus is the very 309 hive of turbans, green and otherwise.
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