Examples of hive

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The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false.
The same number of hives was used for both seasons.
The control entries consisted of the same male-sterile lines without alfalfa leafcutting bee domiciles or honey bee hives placed at flowering time.
According to this information, four single-storey honey bee hives were established in the honey bee experiment, each single-storey containing around 6000 bees.
Other tasks, formerly also undertaken by men in holy orders, were over time increasingly hived off into their own separate professions.
Two hives were placed at the north end of the plots and two hives were placed in the centre alleys of the plots, all entrances facing to the south.
Although the notion of swarm robotics is borrowed from nature, such as behavior in ant colonies and bee hives, etc, it has many applications in robotics.
When their numbers reach a peak, like bees in a hive, they decide to migrate to better pastures.
In 2004, it is hardly a hive of commercial activity.
They trained bees to forage at a feeder on a boat, which was paddled increasing distances from the hive, until it reached an island.
A bee-hive, when it swarms, appears to reproduce by broad-fronted budding, like a wolf pack.
The experimental frame was returned to the hive.
Second, the superorganism hypothesis notes that the hive is itself an organism - a superorganism - and each member of the hive has a specific function.
Around 5% of the dose is absorbed by the bee and 95% will carry on passing on to the colony i.e.: to the hive.
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