A funny thing about introducing a new queen into a hive that has lost its queen (or one that you’ve killed because her brood was too fighty). 

You have to introduce the new queen into the hive with these special queen cages that are stopped up with candy, and are open enough to let the hive smell the new queen, but not open enough that they can get in there and kill her.

Because they will kill her. 

When you first put the new queen in she smells like an intruder, but by the time it takes the bees to eat through the candy and free the queen, the queen’s pheromones will have had time to work and the hive will have gotten used to her.

From the outside this kinda seems like: 

hey everyome i know i dont really post much on here anymore but i just recently ended things with an emotionally abusive ex & i could really use some financial assistance as i’ll be recovering from my first gender confirmation surgery next saturday and im really stressing out about how im gonna afford rent without him while being off work for sn entire month. if anyone has it in there heart (and bank account) to send a couple bucks my way i would greatly appreciate it but i understand its tough times for all of us.

this is the best evidence i could come up with but basically to further clarify the situation my ex was extremely emotionally abusive & also mildly sexually abusive. (tw: sexual assault- he would force himself inside of me in my sleep like every morning he woke up with an erection which was like every morning)

and these are pictures of me post op to prove that i did infact have facial feminization surgery. now the only issue i have is proving that im having difficulty earning enough money as a black trans woman to afford a living space in new york that i got with another person who im no longer living with. any and all donations will be going towards my survival & potentially towards finding a place i can afford as a minimum wage worker. thank you to all that can donate and for all that cannot a reblog and a prayer will suffice sweetness❤️🤍❤️🤍

inshallah if god wills it so i shall reap honey