How a Bee Becomes Queen
Royal jelly! For bees, it's what makes all the difference between a queen and a worker. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't...
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(INTRO TUNE)Honey bees have a harsh caste system. Of the tens of thousands of bees found in ahive just about all of them are female workers and they do pretty mucheverything from cleaning and building the hive, to collecting pollen and nectar.Their lives are so intense that while a worker can live from four to nine monthsduring the winter, a worker bee born in the busy summer season will only lastabout six weeks before dying of exhaustion. It's not a whole lot betterfor the 300 to 3000 male drones who basically hang around waiting to matewith the Queen during the summer after which they die or are kicked out of thehive and when fall comes, and they are of no more use. Then there's that Queen.There's one per hive and she can live to be up to fiv...
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(INTRO TUNE)Honey bees have a harsh caste system. Of the tens of thousands of bees found in ahive just about all of them are female workers and they do pretty mucheverything from cleaning and building the hive, to collecting pollen and nectar.Their lives are so intense that while a worker can live from four to nine monthsduring the winter, a worker bee born in the busy summer season will only lastabout six weeks before dying of exhaustion. It's not a whole lot betterfor the 300 to 3000 male drones who basically hang around waiting to matewith the Queen during the summer after which they die or are kicked out of thehive and when fall comes, and they are of no more use. Then there's that Queen.There's one per hive and she can live to be up to fiv...
