Yes, if you keep bees, you find that almost every action you take kills at least a few of them, and sometimes a few hundred for varroa mite sampling. It’s a bit

Yes, if you keep bees, you find that almost every action you take kills at least a few of them, and sometimes a few hundred for varroa mite sampling. It’s a bit less worrying if you think about them more as cells of a distributed organism. Also, they will instantly sacrifice themselves for their hives without hesitation. The closest human analog would probably be more like a tribe.