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WingDander from the RoseMoth is an important dopant in Hive Wax, 
along with RookWeed Pollen and RosePetal. 

RookWeed, an innocuous wildflower once rare, was discovered to have
the amazing property of raising the sensitivity of beewax to scents.
In the wild, it attracts bees to its blossoms by mimicking the scent
of those that browse it, and by instantly flinging that scent widely 
into the wind. Other bees, scenting the strong presence of a friend, 
veer off to make greeting, and find instead, a flower inviting pollenation.

When RookWeed Pollen is mixed with beewax, it retains the ability to 
mimic, and can make an entire cake of wax 'resonate', if you will, 
with whatever scent touches it. RookWeed doped cakes were first used 
to carry QueenScent, as a seal to official documents, but proved too 
easy to counterfeit, so their use was abandoned. Waxware engineers, 
however, saw the potential of RookWeed wax, and built long channels 
of it within the walls of Hives, as a way for bees to communicate their 
presence to others, at long hive distances.

RookWeed was seen as a wonder plant, and was cultivated by Buzzer 
speculators, hybridized, and scattered to all areas of KinterSylvania. 
Much Honey was stockpiled by lucky speculators, who got in and out of 
the RookWeed market quickly enough, before natural forces ate up the 
supply, literally.

It turned out that the RoseMoth, a gentle local species of moth often 
found on Rose bushes, and whose mass migrations whenever the Roses 
bloomed had long been a curiosity, were discovered to be a natural 
enemy of the RookWeed, visiting it in its Northern Climates, to eat 
it, and to breed within its blossoms.

The artificial propagation of RookWeed into temperate climates, resulted 
in an astronomical increase in the number of RoseMoths, whose 
multitudinous eggs survive at very high rates in temperate climates, many 
more than survive when they breed in the cold.

Much of the RookWeed crops were destroyed over time, leaving the RoseMoth 
with no place to breed. Their strong sexual drive still drove them to 
seek the scent of the RookWeed, and they found it in the walls of bee 
hives.

In some Urban Hives, infestations occurred that drove out the bee 
inhabitants, and fowled the honey stores. 

These early hives required expensive abatements, where the RookWeed doped 
wax was removed from the walls. The material fell out of favor with 
waxware engineers until the team at Bee Labs discovered its true 
importance, as a component in the scent transniffer.



The Editor


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