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Life of Flora 717

Instability in Hive

Forager

Birth

  • Sickness is detected in the Hive and all the newly laid eggs keep dying
  • The Queen is killed
  • Hive is lost without the Queen, "as no task had meaning"
  • Flora lays third egg, and begins to feed it flow

  • Flora 717 is born a sanitation worker, the lowest level in the bee caste.
  • A Sage, a higher level bee, uses Flora in an experiment.
  • Flora becomes a nursery bee and is miraculously is able to make Flow (Royal Jelly), the substance given to feed baby bees.
  • After refusing to kill a deformed baby bee. The Sage bee removes Flora from the experiment.

  • Flora becomes a forager when Lily 500, a forager, allows her to join her foraging group.
  • Multiple bees come back to the hive poisoned by pesticide. Lily is put to death for this poisoning.
  • Before she dies, Lily transfers all of her foraging knowledge to Flora.
  • Flora lays her second egg and hides it in the Treasury, where the honey is stored.
  • While out foraging, Flora gets caught in a trap set by the wasps. She escapes, but this delay meant Flora could not return to the hive till the next morning because of the rain.
  • Flora comes back to the hive during "The Visitation" where the bee keeper comes to the hive and takes the Treasury, killing Flora's egg

Spring

Fall

Winter

Summer

Sanitation Bee

Winter Prep

War of the Queens

  • After the experiment, Flora is sent back to be a sanitation worker.
  • While there, a wasp comes and attacks the hive.
  • Using the Hive Mind, Flora and the other bees are able to kill the wasp.
  • As a reward, Flora is able to meet the Queen.
  • After meeting the Queen, Flora miraculously is able to lay eggs and hides it in the nursery.
  • Flora finds out her egg was killed because her egg was a drone and it was placed among the female worker eggs.
  • Flora talks to the spiders, and they tell her that winter will come twice and she will have a third egg
  • Preparation for Winter begins by getting rid of extra mouths
  • All the males are murdered by vengeful females, one drone escaped, Linden, who Flora befriends.
  • They begin clustering, with the Queen in the center, and the lower caste bees on the outside.
  • Two factions, Sage and Teasel both raised their own Queens
  • There can only be one queen, and the Queens fights, Sage kills Teasel
  • Flora's daughter, a Queen bee appears, after killing all the other Queen cells
  • She wounds the Sage Queen
  • Wasps attack the hive
  • Flora's daughter leaves with a swarm to a new hive
  • She breeds with Linden, becoming the new Queen
  • Flora 717 dies

Themes

Quotes

Inconsistencies in the Book

  • Don't let your caste define you
  • Individualism vs hive mind
  • Accept Obey Serve
  • Motherly Love overcomes all

"Praise end your days"

"Only the Queen may breed"

"Blessed be sisters...

Who take away our sins.

Our mother, who art in labor

Hallowed be thy womb"

  • Flora and Sir Linden live much longer than the average bee (3-4 months)
  • A bee normally would not move through so many roles
  • Not be able to lay an egg without mating
  • Spiders don't predict the future
  • Shouldn't have been able to make royal jelly

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