Issue 12 Arthropoda

Can you Bee-lieve it?

D ear Diary,

Kene Oreh U6th illustrates an anthropomorphic

view from the perspective of a bee in colony

I only just emerged from my

surrounded me and

the hive to the other with

cocoon a week ago, and now

established themselves as

various tasks to complete

I’m hovering between two

never fails to make me feel

equally enticing decisions:

like I’m not doing enough

crawl back inside my cocoon

for the colony.This sudden

or head out the hive to

urge to

swarm with the other

do

drones right this second.

anything

Emerging from my

for the

cell

sake of

was an

our

extremely

colony’s

disorienting

survival

experience to

bloomed

put it mildly. The

so

Immediate attack of

suddenly

Colour and vibrance was a

that it’s

shock to my system –

strange

understandably so. I was

that I felt nothing close to

thrust out of a warm,

this sense of responsibility

comforting encasement into

while I was pupating. Since

a world where my senses are

my whole world – a world

my emergence it consumes

continuously stimulated.

that values order and

my every waking thought.

Towering golden heights of

efficiency above all.The

It becomes increasingly

eerily perfect cells

noise of the worker bees

hard not to feel a

bustling from one comb of

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deepening sense of