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Challenge #02958-H035: Not That Harmful
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> Aboard a station, a man is raising a small number of bees. Yes people are frightened, yes they complain to the management. Management sends security. The man explains how these bees, though more for the safety of the bees than the people around them are being kept in a special enclosure filled with growing plants, are not the kind that are able to sting. And shows how to make friends with stingless bees.
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> There are many varieties of bees and there is a type of bee that produces honey that actually do not sting. They have no stingers. They can, if provoked, give a painful bite, but the bites are not venomous, they just hurt. They are many that are far, far more docile than even European bees. The problem is they do not produce very much honey at any one time. Which is why they're not often kept as honeybees by most who raise bees because of their very low production. They are, none-the-less, very fascinating. -- Apiary

[AN: I actually met some of these guys! They're more the size of fruit flies and don't even register as bees to the casual observer. Their hives are firkin TINY and I'm a little bit in love]

It took Biota Management some time to find the nest and, given how it was built, only a little further time to find the apiarist. There, in their personal quarters, was not merely a vast array of Deathworlder plantlife, but a multitude of very, very small hives. It doesn't take many hives at all to be a multitude when bees are involved. Three is sufficient. Human Baz had five. None of them were bigger than a shoe box. Some of them were barely bigger than a chocolate box[1].

They tried to arrest her, of course, because balancing a closed environment is a serious job and the least little thing can tip an entire ecology into utter chaos. Anyone bringing in unauthorised and uncleared life forms was in for a heap of trouble. Public Endangerment was just the beginning. Unfortunately, Human Baz had an unbreakable defence - the proper paperwork.

Folders of it. Reams of it. Miles and miles of red tape. If put into physical form, it would have occupied two and a half moving boxes. Human Baz had dotted every I and crossed every T. Slowly. Methodically. Carefully. Including registering the swarms as pets so she could go through all of the testing necessary to be certain that the bees were as harmless to the stations' biota as they seemed. One of those tests was the release of one sterile hive in a restricted zone, with protections to be sure that they didn't interfere with any other systems.

That was the hive that Biota Management had found. At the final week of that stage of testing. One day away from the deadline. Baz wasn't even upset. She just brought up all her documents and scientific results, and waited patiently for the Biota Management to finish reading through it.

"The tricky part was building a robot queen for the hive. Metabolising the honey into the right pheromones took a bit of engineering. Part of it goes into power supply. No new bees, no chance of a hive branching off into the relative wilderness. I have daily reports."

"Yes," said Biotech Flans. "We've seen them. Very thorough. What we don't understand is how the offices didn't know about this..."

"I've maintained constant communication with Officer Lyngonai. It's in my assembled files."

Rapid paging through the datareader of discontent. "Oh _that_ officer Lyngonai. They're very bad at keeping the rest of the centre notified as to their shenanigans. You filed your paperwork properly, above board, and with due attention to detail. The problem _here_  is that Lyngonai _didn't_."

Well. Now that she was no longer in trouble, Human Baz relaxed a little. "So... I'm okay?"

"Now you are," said Officer Blaise. "I'm taking over the case. And putting Officer Lyngonai on reprimand. They'll be filing all their paperwork before they see any other cases, and have a reminder manager from now on."

"And my bees?"

"I'm sure they'll be approved with further testing."

Human Baz relaxed all the way, "Oh good. I was worried for them."

[1] The double-layer Ferrero Roche ones, if you must know.

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@bkf ·
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If you've friends that are allergic to bee stings, but still want to have an apiary, stingless bees are ideal.

While some do have small stingers, most stingless bees there have absolutely no stingers, and both types are incapable of stinging by way of defense or being able to harm a human. While some varieties can still be dangerous, albeit not to humans, most would likely not even bother a level 4 havenworlder.  And, the most amusing point?  The most harmless of stingless bees of all?  Can be found in that weird and wonderful place known as Australia. YEP!  That land down under where absolutely everything, including the environment and weather, is out to kill you, and yet these bees aren't.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee
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@internutter ·
Those are the exact little darlings I was talking about in the author's note.
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I did need to know how big a chocolate box as there is a lot of types of chocolate boxes but that was the only easily available commercial one I could think of XD

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@internutter ·
I also thought of jewelry boxes, but those also come in assorted sizes and shapes. It's a bit of a problem thinking of the right size of small box.
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