Correct me if I'm wrong because English is not my first language, but my understanding from reading this article is that this is NOT a colony. It is a large area where over 5 million bees are living spread out. Link
For our ancestors, the appendix most likely evolved to help them digest a diet rich in raw vegetables and cellulose, as it still does in many herbivorous mammals. Thousands of years ago it would have functioned as an extension of the cecum, involved in the bacterial digestion of fibrous plant materials.
“And people did this, just like you, you and me. These people did not come from another planet. [...] They were human beings, just like us. And it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race...”
Correct me if I'm wrong because English is not my first language, but my understanding from reading this article is that this is NOT a colony. It is a large area where over 5 million bees are living spread out. Link
Giant root-rat
Etymology of laugardagr:
This article says it was for raw vegetables:
Here is a longer version of this:
From this site: https://www.nationalfonds.org/announcement/recollections-of-auschwitz-at-buch-wien-2021
Here is how they actually look: