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minus-squareDenjin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-24 days agoBees are almost all female. The males’ job is to fertilise the queen’s eggs, have their penis explode and then die.
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minus-squareMrsDoyle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoAnd if they’re still alive come autumn, their sisters kick them out of the hive. No freeloaders! (I’ve seen this happen, it’s quite brutal. The drone is struggling to get back inside into the warm, but the workers just shove him out.)
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThis is basically how I got a kid. I think there’s only one step left …
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoIn the larva state workers and future queens are equal. It’s all in the nurturing.
minus-squarenaticus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI should respond so you know it’s not the last one, huh?
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI’d go for the fertilizing the queen’s eggs third, if it were up to me!
Bees are almost all female. The males’ job is to fertilise the queen’s eggs, have their penis explode and then die.
And if they’re still alive come autumn, their sisters kick them out of the hive. No freeloaders! (I’ve seen this happen, it’s quite brutal. The drone is struggling to get back inside into the warm, but the workers just shove him out.)
This is basically how I got a kid. I think there’s only one step left …
In the larva state workers and future queens are equal. It’s all in the nurturing.
I think I’m 1/3 male bee.
Which third?
I should respond so you know it’s not the last one, huh?
I’d go for the fertilizing the queen’s eggs third, if it were up to me!