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Farming today? A complete nightmare

Did you know that queen bees can suddenly start laying eggs that make drones instead of worker bees?

So instead of a colony of industrious females busily making honey to feed the hive, you have nothing but useless drones. All the bees starve to death. That was our first lesson in

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