Pre-eruption, I was thinking about keeping bees.

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I watched a fascinating documentary about keeping bees. Typically beekeepers make half of their money selling honey, and the other half by renting their bees out to farmers who need pollination. Some of the crops they pollinate don't produce enough calories for the bees to sustain themselves and to keep them from swarming away to greater resources the bees have to be fed by the bee keepers by dumping white table sugar over the honey combs. They might be insects but they require care just like any other form of livestock.