IN> Kyriotates of Animals and Bee Life Cycles

[Randy Finder, SAINT Corporation]

Note that this applies to the Honey Bee specifically, other Bees aren't
quite at the same high birth and death level (and my apologies if the
original post came out with weird characters, this one should be OK.)

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Subject: IN> Kyriotates of Animals and Bee Life Cycles

Possessing entire swarms of Insects must *very* dangerous for Kyriotates
of Animals. For Bees for example, a Swarm may contain as many as 40,000
bees at its annual peak in the spring. Even for smaller hives (say 5,000
bees) the shortness of the Bee Life Cycle is a huge concern. A worker
bee spends  21 days developing from egg to able to fly and collect
pollen, but will only live and collect pollen for a few weeks (call it
20 days) (in the summer, they live longer in the winter). So in a hive
of 5,000 bees (Queens and Drones make up a tiny percentage of the bees),
250 worker bees die every day or more or less 10 every hour.

Therefore, it seems that Kyriotates of Animals possessing a swarm of
bees should be an almost instant (within a few hours) ticket to becoming
a Shedite.

Opinions?