I have a question When you make crystals, you have to dissolve them in something. When crystals start forming, how do they stay stable and grow when they’re soluble? Why don’t the crystals that just gold formed get re-dissolved back in the water?
Termites are actually related to roaches and don’t have the thing with only female workers and queens going on. Termite workers have a 50/50 gender ratio, they’re just infertile.
It must be because both the male and female termites are diploid. If either gender is haploid, it's more viable for the females to have as little time as possible with any individual male. If females are haploid, females might even actively drive out males excepting in rare situations for genetic diversity because they've effectively become two separate species that can still interbreed, but the males are sort of parasitic to the females because the resources used to raise a male bee (with 50% relatedness) could instead be used to raise a female bee (with 100% relatedness). And if males are haploid, females only require them for the initial injection of DNA, after which males kinda lose their usefulness to the hive they're in.
Black widow spiders (and others) generally eat the males when mating. That would also fit the criteria. As would species like cuddlefish, where both sexes die shortly after mating.
@@vector_vector__ body count can be either how many people you’ve ‘pow-pow-d’ with- or how many poeple you’ve killed. Well- the queen kills every bee she’s ‘pow-pow-d’ so it’s interconnected :)
In Hungarian the official name for the queen bee is "mother bee". In a casual conversation we often say "bee queen" or just "queen", but the correct therm is mother.
True - but the way her genes recombine in each egg seems to provide a fair amount of genetic variation for the hive along with the fact that the hive also has a handful of different fathers in the mix too. But by any standard, a whole hive will have a high degree of relatedness. It's just that if the whole hive also shared a father, it would be hugely problematic.
@@MinuteEarth IIRC, the relatedness between each worker-sister is 75% or so, meaning that it's most spread-the-genes effective for worker bees (and other hymenopterids, for that matter; wasps and ants work in the same way!) to protect the queen rather than striking out on their own and forming their own hives/nests, in which their offspring would only be 50% related to them.
Domesticated Honey Bees are able to tolerate having their queens replaced, and you can merge half strength hives together. But that feels more like grafting being possible, rather than the evolutionary pressure. Using a kinda hacky familiar smell method to classify in and out group works well enough.
@@ennardthefuntimepuppet6456 Queen bees do not mate with their own sons. The drones they mate with are from various other hives so most of those drones do not have moms in common.
The Lifespan of non-Queen bees is quite short compared to a Queen anyway... It's not like dying from sex even matters that much. They wouldn't live much longer anyway. Which is SAAAAD
I am more interested in why evolutionary pressures resulted in male bee's abdomens exploding after copulation. A male being able to mate with multiple queens results in a bottle neck?
Something that isn't clear to me is if queen bee mate only with male bees form other hives and try to avoid their siblings, or if they can end up matting with males from their own hives, which would also cause a risk to diminish genetic diversity.
Young queens ready to start their own colonies go on mating flights, using pheromones to gather up males from all the nearby colonies into a large buzzing cloud. Even ants do this; it's the one time in their life cycle that they have wings, just like their wasp and bee cousins. If you ever find a pile of dead winged ants on the ground, then you know a mating flight must have just happened there recently.
Good question. I hope someone knows. Since they venture out I guess it doesn't happen often if at all, but maybe they recognize their brothers somehow and don't mate with them or the drones recognize their sisters and search for other queens.
I don’t know about bees but ant queens solve this problem by creating complete clones of the first male they ever mated with, without using their own dna
As someone who loves Hymenoptera this is an amazing but simple but still amazing video, like there are ants, bees and wasps which can create genetic clones of their husbands and rip out reproductive organs out of their sister's guts
There are even some species where dominant female workers become queens. Those queens have the unfortunate name of "Gamergate" (Yes, really. Entomologists really got unlucky).
I'm wondering how this works out evolutionarily... bees and ants are closely related, and neither of them have kings; termites, as it turns out, are much much more distant relation; I believe most wasps, closely related to bees, also don't have kings. So when and how did this bizarre genetics quirk first develop?
Well, the haploid/Diploid adaptation likely happened at the base of the Wasp family tree & Ants & bees evolved from that wasp branch of insects. While termites are a type of roach, which along with being from a much older lineage of insect have a more familiar XY style sex selection system.
2:33 I wonder if that's how the Pokemon Combee works because they have an 87.5% chance to be male and a 12.5% chance to be female with only the female Combee being able to evolve into Vespiquen while males don't evolve into anything.
Yeah, both put 16 pairs of chromosomes... But male bees have 16 instead of 32...which explains why unfertilized bee eggs produce only males (the queen give 16 of her 32 chromosomes and then the male offsprings has... You guessed it, 16).
Short answer, yes. Its the same for most animals in one direction or another, its the primary way that animals maintain genetic diversity within a species.
I heard that termite king is usually the one feeding the termite queen. Though workers also help the queen, the king is usually the one tending to her.
Meanwhile termites -Have a nuptial flight (which is like a find a partner activity) -Meet and get together land and take their wings off as a vow of being together -have a little dance celebrating their wedding -neither of them cheats, mourn the death of their spouse will then work like a hive while being carpenters kind of
Hey minute earth, I have a question...human being interact with our environment(aka the surface of the earth) through mostly two dimensions - walking on the ground, etc. Insects however, can walk on walls and ceilings. If people could navigate the world on all the surface areas in the world(ie ceilings, walls, and the surfaces of trees and cliffs) how much more surface area we would have available for us to navigate compared to the 2 dimensional surface area of the land on earth?
1:28 so it’s just like Komodo dragon, even though the females can produce eggs on their own the eggs will always be male Comodo dragons unless a mate is involved
And the haploid strategy has probably already exists in nature. Which is actually a very smart way of conserving resources(like sperm) for nuptial flight events. I have thought of this process for ants that live in deserts and other harsh environments. But the reversal fertilization process will only allow the queen ant to lay eggs that become workers. In order for her to produce alates, she needs to use sperm in order to create both types of alates(even queen alates have to born this way).
So far this laying infertile eggs that become females, often produce queens that are clones of their mother queen. And they can only lay eggs that become more queens, or male alates. We have found no evidence of reversal fertility in ant species yet that produces workers from unfertillized eggs. Nope to self, that all worker ants(and other eusocial insects, bees and wasps) are sterile females, even if the eggs they came from are not fertilized.
If only the workers weren't so stingy with the rations. Male bees usually get kicked out in winter due to food shortages. Maybe in more tropical environments where food was not the concern but genetic diversity against disease... Or maybe the bees need to develop a sense of companionship?
Not necessary as LimeyLassen noted they can store the sperm for years. Funnily enough termites actually have a king so this could happen if they weren't monogamous.
@@MagnakayViolet It's more of a morphology problem. Male bees are practically useless outside of sperm production. They have no jaws to guard or do hivework with, no crop to process nectar into honey, no wax glands. They're basically the a queen's own disembodied penis.
@@MagnakayVioletCould also give the males an additional role to make them useful to the hive. Males could perhaps be much larger, with reusable stingers just like the queens. Making them into an elite body guard. Or perhaps make it so female bees can't become queens, but instead, male bees can switch genders to become queens just like a clownfish.
Fwiw worker bees (females) can lay eggs also....not just the queen. It happens when the hive is "queenless" and the brood production ceases. The hive genetics will survive with the new drones (males) that are produced from the laying workers but the hive itself is doomed without intervention from a beekeeper because the number of workers (females) will diminish over time.
@@Anonymous-df8it they are not queens though....Queens seem to know where to go in order the "mate" with the drones.....They dont mate in the hive.....they do it in flight with multiple drones in order to get enough genetic material. The workers just keep laying drone eggs and nothing else.....they dont know they are doing something detrimental to the hive.
@@Anonymous-df8it ive never seen nor heard of a laying worker mating with a drone, returning to the hive and laying eqqs for females. Queens fly out to mating areas and mate with males in flight....usually a handful of males at a time before the return to the hive. I dont think the workers "brains" are wired to do that.
There is something called emergency queen cells in a beehive (and hornets too). Exactly as you said "feed a baby and makes her the queen" the bees would do this too. If a beehive lost its queen and there are still eggs or infant worker bees they would raise it to be new queen. This is still a bit risky (mating a virgin queen is risky) but not doomed. Not yet. What really rings the alert is when the worker bees lay eggs. This means there are no queens AND there are no available eggs!
Bee 1: yo bro the queen is gonna choose someone to mate with Bee2: yeah I’m good Bee1: dawg she is gonna mate with someone and I hope it’s me Bee 2: that’s our mom like dawg all the bees is the hive are from the queen so that our mom Bee 1: oh… Bee 2: she is gonna mate with a random bee not one of us from the hive Bee 1: dang Bee 2: PLUS ONCE SHE DONE YOU DIE LIKE YOU LITERALLY DIE ARE YOU DUMB OR HORNY AS HELL PROBABLY BOTH Bee 3: what the fu- *THE END!!!*
Termites evolved from cockroaches and are 100% diploid. There are male and female worker termites, unlike colonial hymenopterans which always have female workers.
About the diploid male (drone) bee in 1:43 this is actually a lot more common than human's Klinefelter syndrome (0.2% or 1 in 500)... to be precise the gender of the baby bee is determined by sex allele on their chromosomes. If one got 2 different sets (heterozygous) it became a female bee. If one got a single set or 2 identical sets (homozygous) it became a male bee. The haploid male is normal and the diploid one is the problem child. It will be eaten by worker bees and leaves an empty cell in the brood. The chance of diploid drone in the brood can be as high as 50% if the queen has only one exclusive male bee with an identical allele! Surely this is super disastrous if that male bee is the king in charge! But even without these inbreeding the chance of diploid drones can be around 5%...still a high reject rate for human's taste.
If there are too many diploid males in the brood it will look like "shot brood" or "pepperbox brood" with a lot of empty cells. If this happens you know the queen got bad genes and you needs to replace your queen!
@@trieuvynguyen6614 normal drones aren’t sterile. As a male bee, their only job is to have children and die, but if they can’t, then the colony has no reason to keep them alive since they can’t do anything for themselves other than run. Extremely cruel.
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I have a question
When you make crystals, you have to dissolve them in something. When crystals start forming, how do they stay stable and grow when they’re soluble? Why don’t the crystals that just gold formed get re-dissolved back in the water?
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"Luke I am your father"
"STOP BUGGING ME MOM"
Bees really be like Honey, Nut, Cheerio
Glad to see there's no stigma around this bee-grade humour. You can stay, men.
as a bee, this joke stings, it's actually quite a sticky situation
xD!
I feel like I heard this before....
You mean bee-fore?@@Unresolvedissues101
well, that makes me wonder: Why do termites have kings?
Termite babies are diploid regardless of sex, that's the difference
Termites are actually related to roaches and don’t have the thing with only female workers and queens going on. Termite workers have a 50/50 gender ratio, they’re just infertile.
@@filipdolinski1559 if the queen or king dies a worker can become fertile
because both of them are diploid, the things the video says about bees doesn't apply to termites
It must be because both the male and female termites are diploid. If either gender is haploid, it's more viable for the females to have as little time as possible with any individual male. If females are haploid, females might even actively drive out males excepting in rare situations for genetic diversity because they've effectively become two separate species that can still interbreed, but the males are sort of parasitic to the females because the resources used to raise a male bee (with 50% relatedness) could instead be used to raise a female bee (with 100% relatedness). And if males are haploid, females only require them for the initial injection of DNA, after which males kinda lose their usefulness to the hive they're in.
man poor translators how they will translate all of the bee puns
they just need to beelieve
*Let BEE real , they are going to BEE in a STICKY situation !*
Yep, e.g.: in my mother tongue, 'to be' translates to 'być', and 'a bee' translates to 'pszczoła'🤣
Make of this information what you will😅
@@eviljesus84 I think the gene-jeans is going to be the killer for translations
@@eviljesus84 More like... actually wait, nie, those Zs don't actually make a Z sound, darn it.
Technically speaking,queen bees are one of the animal on earth where "body count" has two different,but also the same meaning
Black widow spiders (and others) generally eat the males when mating. That would also fit the criteria. As would species like cuddlefish, where both sexes die shortly after mating.
I never thought about it that way! I like it 😅😅
Double entendre
Tf u mean ?
@@vector_vector__ body count can be either how many people you’ve ‘pow-pow-d’ with- or how many poeple you’ve killed. Well- the queen kills every bee she’s ‘pow-pow-d’ so it’s interconnected :)
this makes the male bee more like a secondary reproductive organ of the queen bee, in a sense.
Well, male bees are called “drones” in beekeeping lingo. So you know how they are regarded
A walking ballsack, nothing more.
@@austinfreyrikrw6651 got it kinda backwards. it wasnt merely adopted into beekeeping lingo. beekeeping lingo is where the word drone originates.
so the males are just s*x slaves to the queen
@@aphato2770 Well, we learn something new everyday
Did...did y'all just make this so you can use that 'pair of mom genes' pun at the end, because it was PHENOMENAL.
Beeutiful 👌
pheremonomenal
I didn't even catch that.🤦🏼♀️ I didn't think twice about the queen bee wearing jeans.
Lol that went right over my head. I even thought "that was a weird joke".
Wow...
In Hungarian the official name for the queen bee is "mother bee". In a casual conversation we often say "bee queen" or just "queen", but the correct therm is mother.
Takes incest to a whole other level 💀
I'm Hungarian, but I've never heard the term "mother bee", interesting fact.
@@davidtobis3614 The actual term is "bee mother," I don't know why he switched up the order of the words
@davidtobis3614 Same. I've always heard "méh királynő", never "anya méh".
Matica in serbia
1:25 Darth Vader bee: Luke Flower walker, I am your father!
Luke: impossible! I could only bee your grandson!
"Nooooo,that's not true,that's impossible!"
"It has to bee a lie !"
Darth 'Bee'der*
king bee: how do i start my own hive
ai: obtain bees
3:35
Even with a Queen Bee it seems like there would be very similar genetics for all the bees.
True - but the way her genes recombine in each egg seems to provide a fair amount of genetic variation for the hive along with the fact that the hive also has a handful of different fathers in the mix too. But by any standard, a whole hive will have a high degree of relatedness. It's just that if the whole hive also shared a father, it would be hugely problematic.
@@MinuteEarth IIRC, the relatedness between each worker-sister is 75% or so, meaning that it's most spread-the-genes effective for worker bees (and other hymenopterids, for that matter; wasps and ants work in the same way!) to protect the queen rather than striking out on their own and forming their own hives/nests, in which their offspring would only be 50% related to them.
Domesticated Honey Bees are able to tolerate having their queens replaced, and you can merge half strength hives together.
But that feels more like grafting being possible, rather than the evolutionary pressure.
Using a kinda hacky familiar smell method to classify in and out group works well enough.
@@MinuteEarth
But the fathers also have the same mom 😂 and that's what they always mate at
@@ennardthefuntimepuppet6456 Queen bees do not mate with their own sons. The drones they mate with are from various other hives so most of those drones do not have moms in common.
you really got me there with "body count"
In both terms is correct!
Yep it does mean that way. The body count of drones they mated as well as their heads.
Red pill lingo is now in normie videos
more like son count
@@Silentevil7 What part of this is red pill lingo? What's a red pill anyway?
The Lifespan of non-Queen bees is quite short compared to a Queen anyway... It's not like dying from sex even matters that much. They wouldn't live much longer anyway. Which is SAAAAD
The battle is to the death that for sure. Lol
I mean male bees usually get kicked out during winter so if rather die before that💀
"Enthusiastic party poppers" 💀💀💀
I am more interested in why evolutionary pressures resulted in male bee's abdomens exploding after copulation. A male being able to mate with multiple queens results in a bottle neck?
I guess it would be problematic a few generations down the line.
@@Alinor24 and nature's response is to select a mutation that causes death after copulation? That much be some huge pressure.
Well, its simple really, when the Boy Bee was told to bust a nut he took it at face value.
So they don't waste resources that the colonies will need to survive.
@@fen4554 If they didn't die the population would be basically double what it is now and they would waste resources the new bee colonies will need.
bruh i remember saw people saying that bee mating is just queens mating with each other, and it stucked in my head ever since💀
Drone bees are just detached sex organs of the queen, ur so right
that's really interesting, the males are just the queens' way of mating with other queens
They wouldn't be called male if they're queens
Imagine being the "toy" for a lesbian couple
@coffinjoe1702 nature have to create a male bee just so homo doesn't happen, yet human still doesn't understand.
So, in the first few seconds, we have a pun, and a balls of steel reference. Take my sub.
Don't forget the fabulous paint dot that queens get in beekeeping operations
Something that isn't clear to me is if queen bee mate only with male bees form other hives and try to avoid their siblings, or if they can end up matting with males from their own hives, which would also cause a risk to diminish genetic diversity.
Young queens ready to start their own colonies go on mating flights, using pheromones to gather up males from all the nearby colonies into a large buzzing cloud. Even ants do this; it's the one time in their life cycle that they have wings, just like their wasp and bee cousins. If you ever find a pile of dead winged ants on the ground, then you know a mating flight must have just happened there recently.
Good question. I hope someone knows. Since they venture out I guess it doesn't happen often if at all, but maybe they recognize their brothers somehow and don't mate with them or the drones recognize their sisters and search for other queens.
@@silavor7214 The dead ants are the males, this sounds obvious but I spent a few years being sad because I didn't know they were supposed to die.
@@Alinor24
They do avoid their siblings though I don't know the exact mechanism.
I don’t know about bees but ant queens solve this problem by creating complete clones of the first male they ever mated with, without using their own dna
The amount of bee puns in this video is crazy😭
He just part of her harem
just a lil toy lol
“Stop trying to make king bees happen, it’ll never happen!”
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@@KirazNorah 💀
As someone who loves Hymenoptera this is an amazing but simple but still amazing video, like there are ants, bees and wasps which can create genetic clones of their husbands and rip out reproductive organs out of their sister's guts
I had to be so careful to focus on honeybees, because once you expand out to the rest of the order, it seems like anything is possible!
@@MinuteEarth Yes it is! Keep up the good work, ♥️
@@MinuteEarth So... some videos about that in the making?👀
There are even some species where dominant female workers become queens. Those queens have the unfortunate name of "Gamergate" (Yes, really. Entomologists really got unlucky).
omg. mom genes. the dad joke meter just cracked.
I dident get the joke!
Genes
Jeans
Got it?
@@juan21474no :(
this is the type of minute earth video we want more of thanks
Did you know bees most closely related relatives are ants and wasps
No shit
I didn't know that, thank you for that cool bee fact!
And it we take it a step further, bees and ants are types of wasps!
First two replies of this comment are basically the two types of youtube comments
@@_redniel_ xDDD
"Death by Snu Snu" for male bees, or should i say "death by buzz buzz". 😂
People: “Wow, that was explosive.”
Male Bee: “Wow that was explosive.” 💀
Conveniently that means if all the males died the queen could lay an egg with a new drone. Easily.
They'd only be males since female bees only come from fertilized eggs
I'm wondering how this works out evolutionarily... bees and ants are closely related, and neither of them have kings; termites, as it turns out, are much much more distant relation; I believe most wasps, closely related to bees, also don't have kings. So when and how did this bizarre genetics quirk first develop?
Well, the haploid/Diploid adaptation likely happened at the base of the Wasp family tree & Ants & bees evolved from that wasp branch of insects. While termites are a type of roach, which along with being from a much older lineage of insect have a more familiar XY style sex selection system.
Idk
2:33 I wonder if that's how the Pokemon Combee works because they have an 87.5% chance to be male and a 12.5% chance to be female with only the female Combee being able to evolve into Vespiquen while males don't evolve into anything.
We went from science to anime so fast 😭
His balls explode and he spends the next hour or two (if he's still alive by then) dying in pure agony
0:19 bros gonna metal CLANK! CLANK! CLANK! the queen with that steel abdomen💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Never cook again
Lol
"You can 🐝 the only one"
1:52
The energy bee-m struggle was a nice touch
0:18 balls of steel
Your transition into an ad was clever. Good on you. Now I want Opera.
1:59 what you mean by this? Half of 32 is 16 so shouldnt they both pass on 50 percent dna to offspring?
Bee genetics are different
Yeah, both put 16 pairs of chromosomes... But male bees have 16 instead of 32...which explains why unfertilized bee eggs produce only males (the queen give 16 of her 32 chromosomes and then the male offsprings has... You guessed it, 16).
Please do a full video on termites, they are so interesting and underrated
How do bee colonies avoid interbreeding? Do male bees have to come from other colonies?
Males from various colonies gather around congregation sites, and queens looking to mate visit those sites to be mated by several males.
Short answer, yes. Its the same for most animals in one direction or another, its the primary way that animals maintain genetic diversity within a species.
Yep. Princess bees fly outside their birth colonies to meet cute foreign exchange drones from other hives.
“She’s just a hello kitty girl. How bad can she be?”
Queen bees be breaking the glass ceiling for ages now. Slay, Queen. Yass. ❤❤❤
That pause on the mom jeans joke was def necessary. I may or may not have looked at the screen like "did he really do that rn"
Opera even has build in messengers for the user to stay in touch with all of their friends ... "if he has any"
*Ooof size: Large!*
I heard that termite king is usually the one feeding the termite queen. Though workers also help the queen, the king is usually the one tending to her.
How does the rest of the hive know that a male bee is sterile and proceed to eliminate him?
Probably theromones
He smells sterile. Not a joke.
I can feel the bee puns rolling in 💀🐝
Reincarnation as male:😚
But as a insect:👀👄😐
Meanwhile termites
-Have a nuptial flight (which is like a find a partner activity)
-Meet and get together land and take their wings off as a vow of being together
-have a little dance celebrating their wedding
-neither of them cheats, mourn the death of their spouse
will then work like a hive while being carpenters kind of
Poor king, even though he has children, they are insignificant.
Hey minute earth, I have a question...human being interact with our environment(aka the surface of the earth) through mostly two dimensions - walking on the ground, etc. Insects however, can walk on walls and ceilings. If people could navigate the world on all the surface areas in the world(ie ceilings, walls, and the surfaces of trees and cliffs) how much more surface area we would have available for us to navigate compared to the 2 dimensional surface area of the land on earth?
3:08 unless you make so they can have childs of any sex no matter if they're two or alone, like humans (except the queen can still make childs alone)
You have to do some serious, genetic tampering to get that to happen
Bro aint paying child support ✋✋
the man who would bee king
3:05 the only thing I could think of is said bees going out and looking for another hive to spread their genes rather than stay still at the hive
1:28 so it’s just like Komodo dragon, even though the females can produce eggs on their own the eggs will always be male Comodo dragons unless a mate is involved
That might be why komodo dragons do well on islands, they only need 1 female to start a whole breeding popuation.
"OH NO!!! I CAME 😩 but at what cost 😢" 💀
“Because bee genetics are bee-zare”
That’s a great pun 😂
this unveils the deep family lore of barry bee benson
What the heck was the start
0:01
I have always wondered why there are only queen bees! Thanks for the explaining!!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂😸😸😸😸
God marked em out on his grid.😂
2:35 is giving me some weird fucking serious Deja Vu vibes right now, What the hell??
Loved the whole video, even the ad too lol love that sad bee he’s so cute
0:22 wow!
Bro i can’t beelive these buzzing puns from the youtuber
I guess it just wasn't meant to bee 😔
And the haploid strategy has probably already exists in nature.
Which is actually a very smart way of conserving resources(like sperm) for nuptial flight events.
I have thought of this process for ants that live in deserts and other harsh environments.
But the reversal fertilization process will only allow the queen ant to lay eggs that become workers.
In order for her to produce alates, she needs to use sperm in order to create both types of alates(even queen alates have to born this way).
So far this laying infertile eggs that become females, often produce queens that are clones of their mother queen.
And they can only lay eggs that become more queens, or male alates.
We have found no evidence of reversal fertility in ant species yet that produces workers from unfertillized eggs.
Nope to self, that all worker ants(and other eusocial insects, bees and wasps) are sterile females, even if the eggs they came from are not fertilized.
I can’t BEElieve the final pun in the video WASNT a bee pun
It was a genes/jeans pun.
@@kakahass8845 I know
@@StarKatGaming Never mind then lol.
bye why did this actually made me want to use Opera too LOLOLLLLL loved the bee-autiful puns and lovely video as always, thanks!
I suppose you could have a bee colony where a single queen bee has a harem of multiple male consorts that don't die after mating once.
That would make sense if they needed to mate more than once. For some reason queen bees are really good at keeping sperm alive. For YEARS.
If only the workers weren't so stingy with the rations. Male bees usually get kicked out in winter due to food shortages. Maybe in more tropical environments where food was not the concern but genetic diversity against disease... Or maybe the bees need to develop a sense of companionship?
Not necessary as LimeyLassen noted they can store the sperm for years. Funnily enough termites actually have a king so this could happen if they weren't monogamous.
@@MagnakayViolet It's more of a morphology problem. Male bees are practically useless outside of sperm production. They have no jaws to guard or do hivework with, no crop to process nectar into honey, no wax glands. They're basically the a queen's own disembodied penis.
@@MagnakayVioletCould also give the males an additional role to make them useful to the hive. Males could perhaps be much larger, with reusable stingers just like the queens. Making them into an elite body guard.
Or perhaps make it so female bees can't become queens, but instead, male bees can switch genders to become queens just like a clownfish.
This is genuinely interesting, I never really thought about this.
“Worth it” ahh male bees
Fwiw worker bees (females) can lay eggs also....not just the queen. It happens when the hive is "queenless" and the brood production ceases. The hive genetics will survive with the new drones (males) that are produced from the laying workers but the hive itself is doomed without intervention from a beekeeper because the number of workers (females) will diminish over time.
Couldn't the other worker bees reproduce with the drones to get more females?
@@Anonymous-df8it they are not queens though....Queens seem to know where to go in order the "mate" with the drones.....They dont mate in the hive.....they do it in flight with multiple drones in order to get enough genetic material. The workers just keep laying drone eggs and nothing else.....they dont know they are doing something detrimental to the hive.
@@Anonymous-df8it ive never seen nor heard of a laying worker mating with a drone, returning to the hive and laying eqqs for females. Queens fly out to mating areas and mate with males in flight....usually a handful of males at a time before the return to the hive. I dont think the workers "brains" are wired to do that.
But there is a king bee. His name is Carl and he lives in jersey next to a meatball, a milkshake and french fries. He also goes by the name Sweet C 😂🤣
😂😂😂
I didn't know that i would be traumatized by the first five seconds of a video.
**Queen dies**
Bees: Welp, we're all dead.
Hornets: Aw shucks, feed a baby and make her the Queen, ASAP!!
Bees do raise a new queen though.
@@Laruto722 "Quick, start feeding little Suzy royal jelly!" "Ba ba ba GULP."
There is something called emergency queen cells in a beehive (and hornets too). Exactly as you said "feed a baby and makes her the queen" the bees would do this too. If a beehive lost its queen and there are still eggs or infant worker bees they would raise it to be new queen. This is still a bit risky (mating a virgin queen is risky) but not doomed. Not yet.
What really rings the alert is when the worker bees lay eggs. This means there are no queens AND there are no available eggs!
Bees are same.
That makes me wonder… how many male bees has the queen slept and cheated on with ☠️
0:06 Matriarchy moment (literally)
So the queen bee rode the king bee so hard his "abdomen" broke. Brother ...
Termites have a King and Queen Dynamic
Termites evolved from cockroaches & became eusocial convergently to hymenopterans.
This was so interesting 😭
3:59
savage💀
Fun fact in the Medieval Era thought the queen bee was a king.
3:01 This would be just asexual growth multiplication without any male stuff.
No
I dont think you know what asexual is @@baileyjerman5573
While it seems to the case it actually isnt . You ll know y if u see the definition of sexual and asexual reproduction
Well… cloning
the amount of puns here 😂
Male bees literally bust
Pfp checks out. 😂
The amount of word puns in this video is throught the roof
Bee 1: yo bro the queen is gonna choose someone to mate with
Bee2: yeah I’m good
Bee1: dawg she is gonna mate with someone and I hope it’s me
Bee 2: that’s our mom like dawg all the bees is the hive are from the queen so that our mom
Bee 1: oh…
Bee 2: she is gonna mate with a random bee not one of us from the hive
Bee 1: dang
Bee 2: PLUS ONCE SHE DONE YOU DIE LIKE YOU LITERALLY DIE ARE YOU DUMB OR HORNY AS HELL PROBABLY BOTH
Bee 3: what the fu-
*THE END!!!*
This is what my science teachers showed us…THE WHOLE CLASS STARTED MAKING DORTY JOKES 😭
That's un-beee-lievable
Bees start to slowly seem like humans now...
Dramaaa
Death by snu-snu. Worth it.
Same for ants! What about termites since they have kings? I will never be a king. :(
Termites evolved from cockroaches and are 100% diploid. There are male and female worker termites, unlike colonial hymenopterans which always have female workers.
"when a male honey bee mates with a queen, his abdomen bursts open." is this how we start our intro's this year bc if yes, jesus crist dude
About the diploid male (drone) bee in 1:43 this is actually a lot more common than human's Klinefelter syndrome (0.2% or 1 in 500)... to be precise the gender of the baby bee is determined by sex allele on their chromosomes. If one got 2 different sets (heterozygous) it became a female bee. If one got a single set or 2 identical sets (homozygous) it became a male bee. The haploid male is normal and the diploid one is the problem child. It will be eaten by worker bees and leaves an empty cell in the brood.
The chance of diploid drone in the brood can be as high as 50% if the queen has only one exclusive male bee with an identical allele! Surely this is super disastrous if that male bee is the king in charge! But even without these inbreeding the chance of diploid drones can be around 5%...still a high reject rate for human's taste.
If there are too many diploid males in the brood it will look like "shot brood" or "pepperbox brood" with a lot of empty cells. If this happens you know the queen got bad genes and you needs to replace your queen!
Wait so? What the different between the diploid drone and normal drone?
@@trieuvynguyen6614 Google it. It could mature if not killed by worker, but it is sterile and offers diploid sp*rm.
@@trieuvynguyen6614 Google it. I type anything detail and the post is deleted.
@@trieuvynguyen6614 normal drones aren’t sterile. As a male bee, their only job is to have children and die, but if they can’t, then the colony has no reason to keep them alive since they can’t do anything for themselves other than run. Extremely cruel.
Wow what a start to a video
Opera is from a PRC based company , so if you are using its VPN enjoy the consequences.
Well... this was beetastic.
So... How did you die?
Male bee: brutal death by snu snu 💀
Bees getting backshots before gta vi 💀