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TIL that when an apiary needs a new queen the farmer can't just put one in or the bees may kill her because she smells unfamiliar, so what the farmers do is lock the little queen in a cage with a door made of sugar, so that by the time the workers eat enough sugar for her to leave they are familiar.

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