The hive must move before winter. You are one scout among forty.
Real honeybee democracy: scouts sample sites, dance for what they believe in, recruit others, and the swarm decides by quorum. You get one vote. You can advocate hard. You cannot control the outcome.
Each spring the colony gets crowded, and half the bees swarm out to find a new home. Scouts — you're one of them — fly out and sample candidate sites: hollow trees, rock crevices, anywhere dry and defensible.
Back at the swarm, a scout who liked her site does a waggle dance — longer and livelier the better the site. Other idle bees watch, get recruited, and go check it out themselves. Bees at a popular site also nudge dancers for rival sites to quiet down.
Once enough scouts — a quorum — are physically present at one site at the same time, that's the decision. The whole swarm flies there. Nobody counts votes. Nobody is in charge. It just tips.
Today: scout the candidate sites, decide how hard (if at all) to dance for the one you liked best, then watch whether the hive agrees with you.
Fly out and read each site. Revisit one if you're unsure — a second look narrows your read.
Pick the site you believe in and how hard you'll dance for it. You can also sit this one out.
Stay home. Watch the hive decide without you.
Comb fills as scouts commit. First to quorum wins the vote.