Queenright

I read Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee very early in my life, led there by epigraphs in Laurie R. King’s On The Segregation of the Queen, and the book became one of several inspirations for “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees.” Maeterlinck writes poetically of the life of the hive, here housed in a straw skep, and its parallels in h…