Honeybees are masters of risk management, according to a HarvardBusiness Review blog post by Michael O'Malley, a beekeeper and HRconsultant, who says bees' procedures have provided the specieswith more than 100 million years of growth,

For example, honeybees manage the “too big to fail” risk betterthan banks: when a colony gets too large, a spin-off occurs as somebees swarm to form a new hive. In a contrast to the centralizeddecision making typical of corporations, honeybees employdistributed decision making, in which individual bees make choicesbased on the information available to them. And the careerdevelopment the hive provides to bees ensures they're capable ofmaking good decisions.

Full HBR blog post.