Date: June 14, 2016
Source: KTH The Royal Institute
of Technology
A Swedish university conducted a
web poll to name the queens of the campus' two new honey bee hives, and the
results were perhaps not so surprising: "Bee McBeeface" and
"Beeyoncé" were the winning names.
Bee McBeeface and Beeyoncé are
the names the internet has chosen for the queens of two honey bee colonies that
were recently introduced to the Stockholm campus of KTH Royal Institute of
Technology.
Like the participants in the
online poll that voted to christen a British polar research vessel Boaty
McBoatface, the majority of participants in this poll showed a clear preference
for the silly names over more earnest nominations -- some of which paid homage
to women who broke through gender barriers at KTH and in Sweden.
While the British Antarctic
Survey ultimately overturned Boaty McBoatface's victory, KTH accepted the voice
of the people without hesitation. "The vote was fair and open, and a solid
majority favored these names," says KTH's Environmental Coordinator Lina
Häckner. "We received more than 10,000 votes; Bee McBeeface won 69 percent
of the votes, and Beeyoncé got 16 percent."
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