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Unfortunate quote, definitely not provided by a beekeeper! Other bees will have come to rob the hive of food stores if it was weak or has entrances that are difficult to guard. In fact this 'hive' appears to have no entrances - it is all exposed comb. Thus robbing - a natural wild instinct for bees - was always a high risk. It usually results in some dead bees as the poor sods try to defend their nest. It definitely wasn't the 'queen bees', as this berk Rugoff calls them, as there's only 1 queen per per 40,000 workers and they don't fly once mated!
So in fact it's nothing to do with 'tougher offspring' - the responsibility for the dead bees lies squarely with the artist, curator and, I'm afraid to say, the beekeeping associations they consulted (I'm a member of BBKA, not a good day).
Beekeeping itself is a grave enough intervention to natures course. Yet through unfettered use of pesticides, mass manipulation of bees as a commercial pollinator, and now art, humans continue to imagine they are cleverer than this insect, on which our very survival depends, which has been around for several millions of years longer than us and to which we are no more than a transient annoyance! Would be almost funny if it wasn't so irresponsible.
#rant
#boythatescalatedquickly