The bee at the window was bio-engineered, computer-enabled, remote controlled.
The gnats in the park were spying and sniffing for suspicious chemicals and substances, drugs, bombs, DNA signatures.
There were wasps and hornets chip modified, armored, weaponized for individual and crowd control.
The early models had had an extra antenna for the human i/o interface but these days you could hardly tell the bugged insects from the natural ones.
Except for the bees, all the bees had to be manufactured after the multiple disasters that followed colony collapse disorder.
For Jeff Murray who showed me a swarm
Downcity streets
he keeps
bees,
illegally,
cuts the combs,
sells the honey
at the coop
a few blocks away.
We plant borage
for his bees to browse
(and pollinate)
throughout our gardens.
Why the Bees are Dying - and how to bring them back by Joseph Graf
No Organic Bee Losses
An Appreciation of Honeybees
Thanks to Nancy and John Todd for their practical lessons in ecological and social design.
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Science Fiction Fairy Tale: The Filter Scarf
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