I spent a lot of the next weeks flying all over the sub-hives to breathe out my morphotyping pheromones on thousands upon thousands of larvae (and wishing I could bottle the stuff without it losing its freshness and properties).
The results were worth it, though.
As soon as they emerged from their brood cells, Hardbees showed themselves to be absolute workaholics!
It was in the nature of bees to like working and being useful. They also didn't like idleness because it was boring. In that, Hardbees were exactly like any other bees.
What made them special was the extra time they got by eating only one meal a day and sleeping for only three hours. They got seven entire hours of extra time which they had no idea what to do with, because for the first couple of weeks the only job all bees had was to finish school!
