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[Egan_BW]

Dwarves can't successfully transmit CCD to bees however, because they will attempt to do so by biting the bees. The be is crunched into paste instantly and thus cannot be a further carrier.
It does make the rest of the colony chase down that dwarf and sting it to death, however.

[King Zultan]

No matter what's happening all bees will go after dwarves and sting them to death.

[Bumber]

Stinging a dwarf causes a bee to contract CCD. The bee dies after stinging the dwarf, but other bees will attempt to perform CPR on the bee and contract CCD.

[knutor]

A carpenter bee with CCD would use a Diffeomorphism grid.

[delphonso]

Dwarves hide stingers under their beards.

[BigUglyWorm]

Dwarves wear beards made of bees (beeards) that allow them to function as hives.  Eventually, all dwarves in a fortress will have beeards; bees from different beeards can start fights, and they'll attack anything that attacks their dwarf.  None of this makes them immune to stings, and if immersed in water, the bees will drown, making the dwarf beeardless and turning them despondent.

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

Dwarves wear beards made of bees (beeards) that allow them to function as hives.  Eventually, all dwarves in a fortress will have beeards; bees from different beeards can start fights, and they'll attack anything that attacks their dwarf.  None of this makes them immune to stings, and if immersed in water, the bees will drown, making the dwarf beeardless and turning them despondent.

Furthermore, beearded dwarves will attempt to forcibly make any non-beearded intelligent creature (has [CAN_LEARN]) have a beeard.
Any non-beearded dwarves will receive the same treatment.
Since dwarves and non-beearded intelligent creatures are not immune to bee stings, you might have !!FUN!! with this...

[Bumber]

Furthermore, beearded dwarves will attempt to forcibly make any non-beearded intelligent creature (has [CAN_LEARN]) have a beeard.

FTFY.

This includes bees, resulting in recursive beeards that lead to madness for all who bear witness. (Especially bears. That goes without saying.)

[Naturegirl1999]

The problem I see with bees having beeards is that the host bee might get crushed by the surrounding bees, oh nope that’s something else, it would be lots of bees linking together, am assuming other creatures of similar sizes will simply be forced to link up with the bees due to the fact that a beeard would significantly limit, say a wasp host’s flight ability.

[Starver]

This includes bees, resulting in recursive beeards that lead to madness for all who bear witness. (Especially bears. That goes without saying.)

While bee beards are compulsory, bear arms are merely allowed and not forbidden (even though they can be messy). Though some dwarves treat their Right To Bear Arms as effectively compulsary, anyway.

[King Zultan]

The problem I see with bees having beeards is that the host bee might get crushed by the surrounding bees, oh nope that’s something else, it would be lots of bees linking together, am assuming other creatures of similar sizes will simply be forced to link up with the bees due to the fact that a beeard would significantly limit, say a wasp host’s flight ability.

It's not a problem if the bee's beeard is smaller than the bee, this also has the side affect of leading to smaller and smaller bees!

[knutor]

Dye thread.
Dye clothe.
Dye bee beards.

The otherday I saw an orange bee fly past me, he was covered in orange flower pollen. He was most likely heading for a dye workstation, for another yellow and black.

[Dishmab]

having added hemp plants, and having alcohol, one might expect some smokable activities to occure. pipe making and smokable product production might make sense. animations for smokeing dwarves would be supreme. not every dwarf should smoke, but it would make sense that some would. pipes would be a great craft.

[Bumber]

Non-smoking dwarves get upset when other dwarves smoke in non-smoking sections of the fortress.

[King Zultan]

Smoking dwarves have a chance to ignite cavern gasses causing explosions, this is made worse by all dwarves smoking and all caverns  being completely filled with flammable gasses.