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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

"they don't regenerate
themselves"

That's odd.  Our bumblebees certainly do reproduce.  they must be selling 
workers only, and that means the bees are intended only for one use on a 
crop that all flowers at once.  I can imagine the bees getting out and 
working all day, but with no home to go to at night, I can't imagine what 
would be going through their tiny heads.  Would they keep working hard all 
day gathering pollen?  Or would they just go get enough to eat and sit 
around the rest of the day?  Or do they go back to the box to join their 
buddies, and maybe build storage cells and unload into them?  Donna

http://www.bumblebee.org/lifecycle.htm

http://www.bumblebee.org/lifecycle.htm

P.S.  Ayers pears in town are ripe, gave away 3 bags of them at work, 
thought I'd failed to keep any for myself but I have a few.  At home, 
Moonglow will be next, then Pineapple.  There has already been a squirrel at 
work on my Pineapples.  the Ayers tree in town is not near any easy squirrel 
highway, so apparently a squirrel has simply settled in to stuff himself 
till the crop is all done.