Fake Bees

[The Bulge]

There is a hive with 200 worker bees and opt-in drone coverage.

The hive collects enough nectar to produce batches of 60 mL of honey, 50 mL, 35 mL, 30 mL, 20 mL, and 5mL. It has the available bees to finish the production at the time of collection. Consider these six batches pending. Therefore there are no extra bees available to perform other hively duties, since they are all working on this large batch of honey.

A bee is hit by a swatter while out gathering nectar. The number of available worker bees is now 199, yet the hive continues to operate as if it has 200, since bee technology has not yet advanced to the point of cellular networking, and nobody has been informed of the loss.

The 60 mL, 50 mL, 35 mL, 30 mL, 20 mL, and 5 mL batches continue production. Overworked due to a skewed distribution of labour, all the bees die. This occurence makes the beekeeper very sad. He has no choice but to replace the colony with automated bee simulator drones; he has a family to feed and a business to maintain and he cannot afford to lose an entire harvest. These fake bees will equal 216, more than the original number lost due to fake bees being slightly less efficient workers than real bees.

The one bee wakes up in a dark cupboard. It peels itself off of the flyswatter, escapes the human abode, and makes its way back to the hive. By this time the fake bees have already begun reproducing. The real bee arrives home to find all of its colleagues and loved ones replaced by mindless robots. Nobody will answer its questions or welcome it back or laugh at its jokes. The prodigal bee lives out its life never fully understanding this occurence. Its natural workflow becomes detrimental to the automated drones' precisely finetuned operating system. The bee blames itself, believing to be the weakest link. It becomes depressed. It rarely leaves the hive. It develops a pollen addiction and does not have any sort of peer group to support it through these dark times.

Total bees: 252 fake bees, 1 real bee.

This case is not even a worst case.

Is this right?

Is this ethical?

What would be a better policy?

[Annadog40]

If the fake bees were like real bees, they would of attacked the invader.

[The Bulge]

If the fake bees were like real bees, they would of attacked the invader.

If the fake bees were like real bees then the prodigal bee would have never encountered an existensial crisis as serious as this. They do not think they do not feel only work.

[Annadog40]

Flawed design for fake bees to not defeat their hive from non bee keeper invaders like wasps.

[inte]

seize the bees of production

[Not_Mafia]

Why did the fake bees go from 216 to 252?

[Untrod Tripod]

How can our bees be real if hives aren't real

[Not_Mafia]

Does wifi kill fake bees?

[The Bulge]

Why did the fake bees go from 216 to 252?

Highly sophisticated artificial reproductive organs. Pay attention

[Annadog40]

What do fake bees do with a drone born with two sets of chromosomes?

[Selynee]

Maybe it would have been better to try again this time with 250-300 real bees. Prevent over-working and you know, as cool as automatic bee simulator drones would be, the real bees would be much cheaper