How Bees Choose Their Queen

Have you heard of royal jelly? It may sound like a fancy breakfast topping, but for bees, it’s what makes all the difference between a queen and a worker bee. See what all the buzz is about in this new SciShow video hosted by Hank Green!
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[@tapele5987]

"the Queen lives a lot longer than the thousands of relatives around her" This might sound familiar to British people... 😆😆

[@wintersalwayshereuk6792]

I laughed a little when he said that 😆

[@freyr399]

God bless our Queen🥶

[@immyally2157]

Perfect say

[@Lol-rp3dq]

I saw queen bee in my house

[@Jellyduckface1]

British people = bees?

[@Finkelfunk]

You forgot to mention my favorite fact about bees! Every female bee can potentially lay eggs. Sometimes they even do so, that's a high offense against the entire colony. Their eggs will be killed off if found so they are mostly trying to hide them. There are special guard bees however that check on all the larvae and if one of them does not contain a certain type of pheromone that makes her smell like the other larvae this one is immediately killed and then there is almost and entire investigation process to find the worker who laid the egg. If this worker is found she is stung dead and removed from the hive to make sure the hive is not ruled by anarchy. God you gotta love those bees.

[@AdaptiveReasoning]

Finkel - Funk Yup! Unfertilized eggs will hatch into drones, which are freeloaders for the most part and this is why worker egg laying is a big no no. It's rare and something is usually very wrong with the worker bee's head, but it's a thing. They all have ovaries, so the video is a bit in error there.

[@festivebear9946]

Finkel - Funk So basically, bees are creatures that the second a rule is broken by anyone, their body is raped by sharp objects filled with poison then their bodies are thrown out, so basically how the U.S. gov. handles any new species.

[@discflame]

Finkel - Funk Thanks for making me look up a wikipedia article on reproductively viable female worker bees which led me to the discovery of the gamergate, a female worker ant which is able to reproduce.

[@recklessroges]

Draxis32 Yup, murder suicide if stung, but bees can push other bees out or pull them and once outside they can bite off their wings. I've seen the wing removal after summers end when my girls kick all the lazy boys out.

[@unFayemous]

Draxis32 actually, not necessarily. The reason why bees die when they sting mammals is because their skin is sort of elastic, so they can't just rip through it. The skin will give and at the same time rip out the bees stinger. If they attack another insect though, they can rip right through that chitin exoskeleton and they have a good chance of surviving that.

[@joshuabranham3823]

One small correction: worker bees actually do have ovaries but the queen's pheromones suppress the development of the worker ovaries so as long as there's a queen, then the workers' ovaries are never used. However, if the hive is queenless for an extended period of time then the effect of the queen pheromones wears off and worker ovaries start producing eggs. This leads to a laying worker situation which is where the workers lay eggs but that's a problem since workers never mate so the eggs are unfertilized which means that they hatch out male drones (fertilized eggs are female workers). The hive soon becomes overrun with drones and since drones do nothing useful for the hive itself, the colony soon dies.

[@sophiatealdo9680]

Yes! - and that is exactly what the Earth is goin through a Rebirth to the New Species & the New Earth - the New Earth is On - the Creation this Time is of Beauty Abundance & Peace with unlimited Possibilities for All - permanent & Forever - and so it is - Blessings.

[@brilliantsounds1483]

@@sophiatealdo9680shut up

[@alexb.1372]

For some reason i started to wonder what queen's Elizabeth diet is...

[@orereo2328]

🧐

[@SSS20025]

Royal tea🤔

[@muin_]

Royal jelly for humans 🤔

[@wannacashmeoutside]

There are a bunch of videos on that to answer your question!! Haha. She has a very straight forward diet lol

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

@@SSS20025 the fact that it's pronounced "royalty" make it even better

[@manguy01]

The more I learn about bees, the more they sound like some sort of strange sci fi alien race.

[@dachief3000]

MicManGuy so true and ants also very interesting stuff the both of them

[@azaty1721]

+greg77389 but look at their society. in their hives, communism - monarchy works

[@manguy01]

greg77389 Also, bees aren't selfish. Human nature and bee nature aren't really compatible.

[@avochristos7834]

***** because it's survival of the fittest, they kill each other not because they want power, but because they know that the strongest candidate will likely be a better queen. It's like democracy, but more hardcore. Imagine what if the U.S election was like that, lol.

[@PhiOpsAurelio]

+Wu Gang Here comes Senator Armstrong!

[@nolanthiessen1073]

1:35 Vitamin bee

[@FernieCanto]

***** He probably did, but he's just not *that* inane.

[@NeonRay]

Nolan Thiessen Get out.

[@Moonlitwatersofaqua]

Nolan Thiessen hilarious

[@robertbones326]

I vote this comment best pun of 2015

[@CaptainMcShotgun41]

Nolan Thiessen i see what u did there XD

[@gvatos]

why am i watching this? damn i need sleep and maybe some friends

[@demonddenteth5355]

Same

[@chloeunderwood4597]

_ kswm Same.

[@wm302]

Same.

[@Landon_Chrud]

How bout some bee friends

[@coolspotty]

_ kswm it’s 4 am and I’ve been watching beekeeper videos for like 3 hours

[@AjZ530]

Also, sometimes the bees can become unhappy with their current queen, when this happens, they take the eggs of the queen and builds queen cells for some of them, feeds them royal jelly and when the forst one is born, she will kill all the other queen larvae (her sisters) then hunt through the entire hive trying to find the queen togehter with the worker bees, she will then literally jump the old queen (her mother) and kill her with the help of the other bees

[@millevenon5853]

Bees are sick creatures

[@spazmaster1996]

So.... If i isolate a load of bee larvae, subject them all to royal jelly, wait for all of them to hatch, mix them... I will be observing a royal rumble to end all royal rumbles

[@ThrottleKitty]

Liam Worsley I don't know what *bee lava* is but I want know fucking part of it.

[@spazmaster1996]

Art Murder hmmmmm... i have no idea what you are talking about ;)

[@rdizzy1]

Art Murder It is a molten flow of red hot melted bee goo.

[@fifaplayaswag]

Liam Worsley i like your thinking

[@classicchanny4925]

Liam Worsley You talkin' hunger games?

[@UTEEPster]

In the game of hives, you eat royal jelly or you die!

[@coltonperrin6957]

Unless you're not a queen. That works too

[@GAZAMAN93X]

lmao. Game of Thrones reference?

[@milfcraver2781]

Well, rip me

[@GAZAMAN93X]

I DONT HAVE A NAME ?

[@dylansun9473]

Z

[@ez9566]

The new queen enters the throne room, closely watching her environment. The big crowd is silent, staring back at the interesting scene. The old queen is laughing meanicingly, then suddenly pulls out her stinger to attack the new queen. As she is older, she knows that her only chance of winning lies within the element of suprise, but the princess parries flawlessly, as they begin their duel. With marvellous speeds, they circle around each other, but the elder queen cant keep up. It was inevitable from the beginning: as the old queen dies with the stinger in her heart, she whisperes her final words ,,And so the cycle continues. Take care of my legacy, so that when you will be in my position, you can hand it on to the next in line" then as her last words fade away, she slowly decends onto the ground, until she doesnt move anymore. The new queen picks up the little crown and as she turns around, the crowd starts applauding: long live the hive

[@twofacednoob9496]

Y e s.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

This but the bees dance to communicate

[@am_Nein]

Bees: oversimplified

[@lockdownhamza]

I love this

[@lockdownhamza]

@@pedrolmlkzk Lmfao now I’m thinking of a bee default dancing on their old queen bee’s dead body. Or should I say, reboot card.

[@randommemesweekly4417]

queen bee: i can live up to 5 years old! queen ant: hold my beer, i can live up to 30 years under the right conditions

[@ybajoe9773]

humans:no me I can live over a century in the right conditions sea turtle:i can live 150 Great Basin Bristlecone Pine:Laughs in living 5,065 years, "Pathetic

[@betatrix2545]

Random Memes Weekly Queen Elizabeth: MORTALS

[@ervellynkane9742]

Anime Girl Jelly fish can live infinitely under right conditions!

[@GamingwithRama]

The earth: *laughs in millions of years*

[@malachimason9790]

The universe laughs in longer than anything

[@wakimaniac]

How a Bee Becomes Queen 1.- Bee Freddie Mercury. 2.- Start a Band. 3.- ??? 4.- Profit.

[@yungmalaria]

This made my day, that was puntastic

[@B3taNyan]

Win

[@BlazeTaleo]

Is this referencing rotmg?

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

TheWakimaniac 3- BEELIEVE in yourself.

[@retroidgaming6254]

Blaze Taleo nope south park

[@maunica]

Lemme fix that title for ya, mate. *How a Bee BEEcomes Queen* I have no regrets.

[@amaan6845]

Your a normie *How a 🅱E E 🅱E E C O M E S QUEEN

[@loafhouse]

-[[]-[]]-

[@puppiesarecute43]

Vitamin bee.

[@pemawangmo2145]

50th like!!

[@OttoTheJebediah]

Welp I do for you.

[@tallia7224]

Female worker:I do all the work around here while you just wait around for a mate Male drone: *that doesn't mean you can KiCk Me OuT*

[@gin9561]

It’s the other way around in real life

[@user-ck1zi8qf4i]

@@gin9561 the comment is based on real life too ykno?

[@moonie1825]

Hit the road jack and don't come back no more

[@tyler7992]

jumin not in humans

[@Abcwhatever]

@Primalgamin827 9 Your sentence is so broken that I can't tell if your joking, being sexist, or just an idiot Edit: I now realize that you meant to add a period and that you are stupid

[@julyan4520]

me: *about to sleep* youtube: how bee becomes queen? me: youtube: me: *clicks the vid*

[@Master-un5dv]

Lol

[@Thunderbolt_7026]

Master 980 lol ima kick myself

[@Josh-mm6po]

@Abigail Pritchard i k r

[@inolongerusethisaccount4004]

Why does every comment like this have to be written like some script on paper? Just say that you were about to sleep and this vid got your attention simple

[@inolongerusethisaccount4004]

@Abigail Pritchard this comment formula is more repetitive than every new fifa game being the exact same thing and it got so boring and bland

[@gingerjester2870]

Royal jelly = taxes

[@FernieCanto]

Matt Douglas Bill O'Reilly disapproves.

[@jetjazz05]

Fernie Canto As he would say, "THIS IS BULLSHIT!"

[@johnclavis]

Fernie Canto Bee goes in the hive, bee goes out of the hive. Science can't explain it!

[@Lukadj117]

Matt Douglas Too high taxes = workers go out of the hive. Less workers = less royal jelly = the reason why bees keep flying away from commercial bee owners. LOWER THE TAXES

[@Mike_Jones281]

John Clavis HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA Yes we can bill, its call motion...

[@mokaa.9553]

game of thrones happens every time a queen bee dies

[@lisabarnes924]

XD

[@davidchenyt]

Cc. Cv f. D cI vibe.

[@weirdface3838]

lol when the queen bee lusts drones she would call it game of drones

[@Mae_Dastardly]

The war of five queens was way more brutal.

[@frankuson3960]

Hornets = Dothraki

[@AwokenEntertainment]

thanks for this.. I needed answers

[@CCJJ160Channels]

A queen can live for five year laying 2,000 eggs a day? Me: “That’s (counting on fingers) . . . a LOT of eggs!

[@badassbees3680]

It's VERY rare .. usually 2 yrs there done.

[@francissinatra8774]

If they lived the full 5 years it would be a total of 3,650,000 eggs during their lifetime. And we are still managing to kill them all..

[@bozmundarts2614]

wtF? Do you even know how important they are? And how dangerless they are if you dont do anything to them??? Good luck in a beeless world!

[@jacogomez1093]

​@@bozmundarts2614 Bro Francis meant that we, humans, are in fact killing all the bees (as a VERY BAD thing) even if they reproduce faster than rabbits... not that we should do it

[@thepraetor7434]

That's 3.6 million eggs laid in 5 years.

[@Zolbat]

When two queens fight each other to the death... Do the other ones around them cheer and make bets?

[@Riizyy]

Zolbat You deserve a cake. I like cake.

[@solrinin]

Zolbat I wonder if they tie one of each of their legs together and have a stinger/dance fight like MJ's Beat It video.

[@TheApple10]

Worker bees: Fight fight fight fight fight fight, come on, you got this! Don't let that b**th win!

[@xjonnyd93x]

Zolbat I always bet on the less developed one, since the odds are usually 2:1 and that can get me a lot of royal jelly, if you know what I am saying, *wink wink*

[@merloon]

Zolbat Thunderhive. Two queens enter. One queen leaves.

[@evayang3209]

damn the bee kingdom is more harsh than the human mideval kingdom

[@leonel57]

Ikr man it's harsher

[@gabe1416]

Ijnh

[@sombrerokitty4643]

Ikr

[@LadyCeag840]

Game of Hives XD

[@LadyCeag840]

If they ever do, I'd watch it!

[@kazvinsmoke2257]

2:06 “we are, after all, not bees” thank you for clearing that up, I was gettin’ real confused there.

[@kazvinsmoke2257]

2:03 I mean!

[@jonw9791]

**looking at my stinger** Then what am I?

[@kazvinsmoke2257]

Jon W not another one

[@Wolfgodmak]

All these “Bee” jokes at 2am. I should “Bee” sleep. Yes i said it.

[@eshikaessain8731]

Correction: I should bee sleeping

[@AaryanGamer]

@@eshikaessain8731 or bee asleep

[@eshikaessain8731]

@@AaryanGamer yep I was gonna write that

[@Master-un5dv]

Good night

[@KZ-ui5yo]

why are you still awake you should Bee Asleep

[@gnomibee6785]

Vitamin BEE you say???

[@merryjane2095]

Hahaha hahaha! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@zerorvn]

No its US BEE!

[@salliuemansaray6066]

Stop just stop....

[@loonie2195]

XD *slowly claps* yes i drink vitamin BEE milk for breakfast XD XD 😂🤣🤣😂😂

[@yungthicci]

ash kats UwU don’t you mean milk with calBEEum

[@micahphilson]

As soon as I heard "Royal Jelly", I knew I could stop watching because Spongebob taught me everything I need to know.

[@micahphilson]

For instance, it goes really good on burgers!

[@betterknownascali566]

Love it LOL

[@yuily963]

Micah Philson XD

[@invaderpikachu1425]

👌

[@skullies3580]

for me it was adventure time

[@TechChariot]

Pretty nice video, one small correction and an interesting fact: --the bees don't wait for the queen to die before creating a replacement. When they sense she's getting old and slowing down in egg production, they will create many new special, larger cells and cultivate queens with the royal jelly as you described. Thus, when a new queen hatches, not only does she have to deal with the rest of her queen brood, but she then has to find the old queen and kill her too (usually succeeding). Thus, end of life for a queen is quite brutal, and Shakespearean. Also worth noting that the queen is the only honeybee whose stinger is straight (not barbed) and whose abdomen does not detach after stinging like most honeybees. This allows her to kill without dying, although no human has ever been stung by a honeybee queen despite deliberate agitation.

[@nexusintake7179]

How a bee becomes queen? It reaches the end of a chess board...

[@MarvRoberts]

I created a Queen Bee using royal jelly and one of my uncle's bee hives, way back in 8th grade for the science fair. I placed second to a guy who made a telegraph out of soup cans, speaker magnets and a 6 volt battery. >.< At least I didn't lose to a vinegar/baking soda volcano.

[@Evrenovic]

1. The bee becomes the main vocalist of a group. 2. The bee starts a solo singing career. 3. The bee marries a wasp with big ass lips 4. The bee makes songs empowering bees 5. THATS HOW THE BEE BECOME THE QUEEN.

[@pdiddly7397]

Evrenovic Im done with the internet for today 😩💀💀😂

[@malikagelmo]

Bruhhh buzz off🐝 lol jk

[@chrisclark7805]

You're doing the most 😂😂😂

[@EclesysGalaxy]

Who run the world!? BEES BEES

[@theworldoverheavan560]

Evrenovic lol bro

[@officialgrindr]

A queen bee that was born when this video came out is just now dying. RIP queen 🥺

[@germanyball6827]

She'll not die long live the queen!

[@nothing6736]

I have become addicted to these videos about bees why, seriously WHY

[@kbking16]

you could say it was rich in vitamin "bee"

[@tobiasvandenbroeck9139]

Badum-tsssss

[@onyxxreaper6786]

Stop

[@Estarile]

Please go to the Bad Pun Corner, and think about what you've done.

[@timdes283]

Lolololol

[@Life_Grips_]

ha... ha ha... haaaaa...

[@gtrmaster2000]

And all this time I thought Futurama made up "Royal Jelly" for the show. Hard to beelieve.

[@Anonymous12465]

Damn. You're right.

[@CarlosIsDown]

gtrmaster2000 BUT YOUR HIGHNESS, SHE'S A COMMONER! HER SLURM WILL TASTE FOUL!

[@KishoreShenoy1994]

People are making a beeline to your comment

[@bensemusx]

gtrmaster2000 lol futurama came up with a math proof for one of their episodes. The one where the professor invents that machine that can switch people minds. I bet they don't invent too much for the show.

[@bensemusx]

***** by invent I mean make up. Don't know if that changes your comment

[@shruti2122]

Who knew a complete hierarchical drama is going on inside a bee hive!

[@sansabasongbird5130]

My favorite quote about eusocial species: “ Bees (ants, wasps, termites, etc ) have no friends pals or buddies. They live in intimate anonymity.”

[@peoplez129]

I wanna see what happens when 50 queen bee's are put into the same habitat. Do they all fight to the death? Do they cooperate and try to make a hive?

[@haloborn6785]

2:36

[@rogozan8903]

No colaborarán, no. Se mueren todas por culpa de los putos pesticidas. Pero claro, si no fuera por ellos... no habría tantos humanos. ¿No?

[@Athropod101]

+Rogozan Wtf does pesticide have to do with ANYTHING here? No one is talking about pesticide. Don't take things out of context, please

[@rogozan8903]

ReAPeR [NGSBR] Me refería al comentario, porque se preguntaba si "colaborarían". Yo he dicho que no. Thanks.

[@Athropod101]

Rogozan Yeah, I know. But what was the point of adding a pesticide rant into your comment?

[@SilentBudgie]

Did British people have to give Elizabeth II a special diet to make her grow up to be a queen?

[@Shmozone]

They substitute royal jelly for royal tea

[@tonyk4031]

you made my day man

[@interestingcommentbut....7378]

No they just had to give her 10% of their income

[@interestingcommentbut....7378]

For doing nothing whatsoever

[@Nutty151]

A diet of scones and mushy pees.

[@ahmetcanoguz1284]

They should have named this Bee-coming a queen

[@xo_starboyy111]

At the end of this video, I’m like, “So how do they become queen bees?”

[@KZ-ui5yo]

and thats how Bees BeeCome Queen Bees

[@andrewd1788]

they eat the royal jelly

[@adamqazsedc]

Royal jelly. Did you even listen to what Hank said?

[@MasterCowsChaos]

literally watch the video again lmao

[@avarmauk]

So it's not through a democratic process.

[@vicisclips4570]

Monarchy has never been a democratic process

[@09csr]

It is and isnt. The making of a queen isnt democratic, however the queen still needs to be accepted by the workers. If not, she'll be killed. This is a common problem among bee keepers who try to replace their old and less effective queens with new queens (a method called "requeening").

[@avarmauk]

Roman Bellic Haha true

[@rabbischlomoshekelstein451]

damn commies

[@manictiger]

It's a representative genocracy. So the workers that choose the potential queens are the representatives. And genocracy means that it's a political system based around genes.

[@ciel-bell]

Being a drone seems like a real pain in the beehind.

[@jackwilson9572]

Aria Bell Nope all they do is get fed and do nothing but mate with the queen.

[@funninoriginal6054]

Jack Wilson Do you see that thing flowing through your head? Thats the JOKE.

[@jackwilson9572]

funni n original omg im such a fool

[@ollieslovelyworld6330]

Aria Bell nope, they get fed for having sex

[@funninoriginal6054]

it's BlueCrystalRose You also missed the joke.

[@hatgiverguy6607]

When you said “royal jelly” I immediately thought of bee swarm simulator royal jelly

[@leaveragemonke6281]

lol same

[@sora3121]

Sans From [REDACTED] YESSIRRR

[@jokerkeyz8805]

Roblox bad

[@scarletthecat632]

Jokerkeyz Let's be honest, when we were kids we loved it, well atleast I did, so no need to judge this person just because you're older than them and they play a game that's for kids

[@jokerkeyz8805]

@@scarletthecat632 oo

[@liatn19]

y’all coulda named this “How To Bee A Queen”

[@Glockenspheal]

1:35 of course it has Vitamin B!

[@waichen2010]

Lol

[@kittenmoon8425]

Took me a lot longer than it should have to get that.

[@IlluminatiScorpio]

Bluespheal Ba-Dum-Tss!...

[@jones81381]

Bluespheal Vitamin Bee* lol

[@shamsurnayeem2769]

I'm weak

[@ohmygarrnis9060]

This is a tale of destiny After the death of the leader, a new queen is sought after. Some of the meager children become privileged from birth to take the place of their foremothers They are fed with the highest quality nourishment to train them and see who, in a fight to the death, will succeed the throne and lead the people Sounds like a dystopian amiright

[@alexanderarrington2393]

If no one has written a book about that, I’ll get to it. Also, great comment.

[@knosat6643]

I would watch a movie about that

[@miniyoonji3851]

This would be an amazing plot to a book or movie!

[@kinggu9270]

Hunterxhunter anime has a little bit similarity on the villain storyline

[@metalman4393]

Honey-ger games

[@Chill_yz]

Queen bees: Ight Imma head out Worker: WE NEED NEW QUEEN, ALERT

[@MaideCanyakar]

Me: I am gonna be productive today, i am not gonna watch random recommended videos on youtube anymore Also me:

[@merubindono]

I thought you just need to be the most popular girl in school.

[@iloveeveryone8611]

Jhusya Angeles you missed the joke...

[@ThatBoiCade]

Jhusya Angeles whoosh

[@iloveeveryone8611]

Lollypop 2034 r/whoosh

[@justanotheruser2611]

Tofu Kingpin this has nothing to do with Beyoncé

[@iloveeveryone8611]

Julie Bee-yonce

[@UniverseShinobi]

Wow I think this is the first time I watch him outside of class.

[@xomirna]

Blackreti same

[@angelstarfire]

Same

[@ellesmith9976]

Yup, same

[@Hi-kl4xw]

OMFG SAME

[@Bolex_15]

SAME

[@TheGreatAndEpicMe]

From overwork to royalty fighting to the death, Bee Colonies are intense

[@piggyoinkoink6352]

Game of Thrones would be awesome if it was about bees, imagine Queen Daebeerys of Hive Targaryen setting her fire-breathing dragonflies against the swarms of Queen Bzzzersei of Hive Lannister

[@a.katherinesuetterlin3028]

I would totally watch that! Never liked Cersei. And don't get me started on the incest thing. 🤢 I'm all for "Hive Targaryen!" And fire-breathing dragonflies sound awesome just on their own. 😁😁 That little tyrant boy-king Joffrey deserves some dragonfly ass-kicking as well.

[@jessemciver9592]

Haha vitamin "bee"

[@nonstopgaming3934]

... God kill me now.

[@Lemburghini]

This man 😂

[@jessemciver9592]

Devon Garcia no need to be rude my dude B)

[@megatronondacounter]

Ayyyyyy

[@tekuriouslabs3765]

Lol

[@laika8078]

I was watching about ants then now bees?

[@zitronenwasser]

LOL. Me too

[@vw213]

Same

[@teatyt0425]

Lol me yo

[@emilio-kong7637]

lol me too

[@catherinepasion1150]

Are ya talking about ants Canada?

[@jenniferbrown2064]

It's 2 am and I'm watching videos about bees?! Anyone else itching after watching this?

[@RicharbY]

Probably one of the first titles I've seen on youtube that sparked genuine interest.

[@lortep458]

So royal jelly is basically super soldier serum for bees?

[@BeyBey.]

Dino li yes.

[@disneydarling]

Little Captain America bees riding motorcycles from flower to flower, knocking other bees out with the flick of a leg.

[@bareerahseher]

It s like popeye tin spinach🤣🤪

[@starcrest4486]

yep. and a tasty snack for humans. (royal jelly is only for some people to try, it is expensive and has a unique taste.)

[@bohakakkallaladinbogog8363]

Now I understand that old spongebob episode where the jellyfish club makes him get the queens jelly

[@bunnyfaceperson123]

+Dice Ferice - No. In SpongeBob all jellyfish make jelly. Not just Queens.

[@scoobydoo7220]

the worker bees looking at the queens: their solid Teflon, never bothered, never harassed~ I would give anything to bee like that 😔

[@yunawhiteley4836]

It seems bees and wasps seem to be my quarantine KZbin feed

[@gabriellaureano2570]

But don't feed it to your baby or they will become a giant bee.

[@inferrinizzard]

Gabriel Laureano you mean your babee?

[@tenaciousdean6179]

Gabriel Laureano I think you mean don't feed it your jelly... If you know what I mean

[@vinayvyraveraja7102]

DIY Princess I guess you dont understand the joke.

[@spheal4754]

the joke your head

[@stizan24]

Honey will kill your baby. Wait until they are at least 1 because their little baby digestive and immune systems can't handle the bacteria present in honey.

[@salsaplease]

1:35 don't you mean vitamin Bee? Eh???

[@FreaperFTW]

***** It'll give you a buzz!

[@DJDadJoke]

***** Hive always loved bee puns. It kind of stings that I didn't notice that first, but I'll try not to drone on and on about it.

[@LittleSolarSystemOfficial]

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen *applause*

[@shalomcesar6289]

Get back in your grave smitty xD

[@OrdonWolf]

Ok, this is pretty epic. It could part of the lore of a high fantasy kingdom!

[@mhmyuhh]

She yells “POLLEN, BUZZ ON” 👑 🐝

[@icartoon101]

This would be a good movie. Queen b coming of age.

[@stealth_pool8780]

call it the Bee movie

[@icartoon101]

+Stealth_Pool_ 2 you right! Cross our fingers no one makes a fan fiction out of this movie!

[@imalwaysright2045]

+AlexRose too late I did lol

[@glassy_rose]

the bee movie is about homewrecker drones

[@iandecker8157]

L

[@thesammo4499]

Marketing in 2016: "Buy now! Face cream with royal jelly!" I'm out, I can't do this anymore!

[@hmidouchboetekees5320]

ja man

[@balancewod1864]

I have royal jelly shampoo ;-;... it makes my hair soft for a week lel.

[@rainbowisticfarts]

Sam Vermeulen its 2017 and that thing is still expensive

[@sophiatealdo9680]

Bees are Free now - and so it is - Blessings.

[@faidaufaira]

insects life are wonderful man. looked for this topic specifically and got totally satisfied with the answer!

[@conixx91]

maybe they live longer because they're constantly consuming royal jelly

[@darkphoenix7225]

Probably also because they are not working around the clock until they get so exhausted they die and they don't die when they mate

[@Rickuo]

But Queens are producing eggs at an industrial rate. I would consider this much birthing to be work.

[@yash_vardhan34]

conixx Exactly

[@Falloutlover1011]

Rick West except I doubt it hurts as much as it does for humans as it does for bees

[@jackwilson9572]

DarkPhoenix Only queens mate, but their is something called false queens. Its when a worker bee tries to act like a queen bee and stsrtd laying eggs. However it does not work because the larvae is too small.

[@dogiz6952]

If I only eat royal jelly, will I become huge, royal and live up to 500 years?

[@afruit6720]

yes

[@leahbrennen9960]

And have 2,000 babies a day? I don't think so.

[@dogiz6952]

wahid raj Very well. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@jacobgetsdipped]

+Ninjawa k let me know when you start eating the jelly then I'll bring my jelly

[@wahidreja1]

jacob mitchell 😂😂😂😂

[@compyrobe2370]

Its so interesting how the royal jelly diet can completely change a bee’s life and body

[@spyinthesky.7197]

That's fascinating! 😃 I did not know that bees secreted the royal bee jelly themselves! Amazing little creatures! Thank you for posting!

[@lloydhembury925]

Royal jelly. Futurarma anyone?

[@nofybn7794]

+Lloyd hembury ?

[@DanMan5000]

I remember that... wait no I was in the hospital

[@stevebeef3246]

yeep

[@Nerding4Nature]

Apply this to fetal humans and it would be a good basis for a good sic-fi novel.

[@Fr00stee]

We are not bees. So are babies

[@arabellat5133]

O_o :D

[@Actheman1978]

The title would be BABEES!!

[@tenaciousdean6179]

The Last GIW I suppose it's a good enough reason to plough my pregnant wife continuously

[@blitzwaffe]

Actheman1978 Bebe's kids! (Or BeeBee's Kids)

[@priyadarshini321]

I love your explanation and it is quiet bit easy to understand by all keep it up and continue your programs ..all the best..👍👍🙂🙂

[@royalwalnutbroth5664]

worker bees: *gives some random baby the royal jelly* You're part of the monarchy now, kid

[@bobbybob3804]

I wonder if they like jazz

[@4evabluegirl]

bobby bob 😂🤣

[@pink3t224]

XD

[@Key_shun_]

😂😂

[@C-64]

Don't you mean, how a bee bee-comes queen?

[@whatif3271]

or how a bee bee-comes queen bee

[@polite_catfish8684]

Don't you mean, how a bee bee-cums queen?

[@whatif3271]

Ham N Cheddar noo

[@normalman8457]

Hi

[@eyeglutchedowtleenkzstoped4234]

C-64 ok first of all that's not how you spell it and it's not hyphenated

[@tayk.t.523]

"we are, after all, not bees" ha ha you got that right **stops flapping bee wings, backs stinger into corner** ha ha

[@roblove5965]

The narrator is too excited in his delivery and comes across as a highly charged goose. Apart from that worth watching. Rob

[@XenoContact]

I would like to see two bee colonies just collide in a brutal fucking war !

[@hashslingingslasher5281]

Bees are becoming endangered.

[@n3rdbear]

while the bees make screeching noises like you're in the middle of an alien melee war

[@ladarian511]

HashslingingSlasher since when was any animal other than house pets not endangered

[@luca4760]

Search bee robbing videos. Stronger colonies when there is not much nectar around tend to feed on weaker colonies ripping apart all the wax inside the hive to steal honey, fighting and killing the bees in the weak colony during the process. Natural selection, BIATCH.

[@antonio4114]

So if you're a queen bee you're literally the chosen one?

[@ameliagrudniewicz1714]

You were the chosen one!You were supposed to destroy the wasps not to join them!

[@kurumitokisakiii1080]

Oof

[@sophiatealdo9680]

Yes.

[@waddledee6642]

Drones basically either mate themselves to death, or get killed or starve. Workers die of exhaustion or live for a short time. But the queen…. She has the good life.

[@waddledee6642]

👑👑

[@emilymonroe828]

doesn't she get killed harshly after she stops producing eggs?

[@khankhalil8574]

In a honeybee colony, the queen is formed when a larva feeds on the royal jelly. How does the royal jelly make this mutation happen? And how are termite queens developed? Do termites also have a special food like the royal jelly?

[@kustantin]

royal jelly has especially vitamin "BEE" Good one,god

[@maelgwyn]

Points that should have been clarified: The food that bees feed worker larva (the nectar, water, pollen combo) is called "bee bread" which is adorable and I'm sad it wasn't mentioned. Drones don't wait around to mate with "the" Queen (aka their mother), they wait around to mate with any possible new queens, either of their own hive, or from a nearby hive. Once a queen emerges and goes on a few mating flights, that's it, she's got enough sperm stored to last the rest of her egg-laying life. Think of a hive less as a collection of individuals and more of a single body that has mobile parts. Stop giving human traits to bees and their organization-they're only doing what their instincts drive them to do. There is no "hive mind," the queen doesn't order them (they are self organizing), the workers are not "oppressed" and the queen isn't in a favorable position either (she has to eat constantly to poop out eggs constantly, it's hard on her and she's basically an ovary). Egg-laying workers occur sometimes, but because they have never mated and only produce drones (all drones come from unfertilized eggs and are haploid clones of their mother) so it's not "cruelty" for the other workers to seek out and destroy eggs laid by egg-laying workers. Drones are a strain on the colony, they only consume and never gather food. They're the testes of the colony, existing to only spread the genes of the queen. The queen is already producing clones, the colony doesn't need a worker making more, so destroying foreign eggs is a way of managing the cost of supporting the drone population.

[@MrJoshlemons]

Thank you, I have been wondering about this for quite a long time!

[@knowhatnot347]

Are you sure you want to use “Royal Jelly” on your Larvae? What? Larvae is evolving! Congratulations! Your Larvae evolved into Queen Bee!

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

All bees are equal, but some bees are more equal than others

[@AggresiveSnuggler]

Eric Lecarde animal farm reference.

[@ziof7984]

I wish I could become powerful just by eating all I want and killing the ones I don't like. Being a human is a real pain in the b...

[@princediop8190]

lol, who doesn't

[@lanacastillo49]

Zio F with that hot body, you look powerful already

[@taintedzealotofficial4476]

Apathetic One she just said powerful body so what...

[@remembervinnie4258]

...Balls

[@dogofwar5272]

That is how humans took power for the vast majority of our existence, modern civilization is young.

[@ahyes5625]

Larvae eating royal jelly Larvae:This is some serious gourmet sh*t.

[@bobjacobson858]

Older bees sometimes die because their wings become frayed until they are no longer able to fly. While I was growing up, I used to sit next to my hive and "help" the bees get into it, especially toward dusk when they had a tougher time getting to the entrance (as opposed to the grass underneath it).

[@anthonykf99]

Could you create a hive of just queen bees?

[@jamalmcelroy]

Yes but only until one was born with a bigger head. She bans her sister and always screams "off with their heads"

[@cdavid111]

we

[@darkgxk]

no you can't

[@Gelain_Felipe]

TonyGAMING They Will kill theirselves

[@nosoapradio963]

I'm a beekeeper, so let me answer your question. No. The long answer is because the queens will fight until only one survives and then you have a hive of one bee. The other reason is that queens can't really feed themselves and require their assistants to feed them. This is the same with the drones (males). Weird fact about drones, during the months leading up to winter, the hive will take the drones and throw them out of the hive. This is to save on precious materials and keeping the hive warm during a cold winter.

[@jordan605632]

Explain how ants are able To make huge underground cities

[@gtrmaster2000]

jordan605632 Architects. Obviously...

[@festivebear9946]

jordan605632 Basically how humans make new homes, ants choose a place to live, then start making it into a home, with rooms and stuff like that, they dig rooms for all the things like food and egg placing and anything really, then as there are more ants, there is a need for more room, and they expand, like us humans, i don't know the exact science, but i do know that much. And that i'm just too lazy to capitalize"i" by itself...

[@Netsuko]

jordan605632 Magnets.

[@carschmn]

Aliens.

[@ljmastertroll]

jordan605632 By exploiting the workers. And tax breaks for the wealthy.

[@user-fd9rx8dh9b]

I only watched like 7 hive removal and honey harvest videos and KZbin thinks I needed this now? Wow they were correct.

[@MB32904]

how to increase population: queens don't kill eachother, beekeepers buy new wooden hives, alot of them, drones are especially necessary for saving it

[@allahrandi5508]

It's very easy. Just ask the bee ,"Are you Elizabeth?".

[@LulitaInPita]

Yes, but with an accent, so it sounds like "ElizaBEEth"

[@LarryLenau]

If I am stung, am I at risk of developing hepatitis Bee?

[@festivebear9946]

Larry Lenau the joke your head

[@Logan912]

Andres Pratdesaba I've never seen such an ironic comment on KZbin before. Bravo.

[@marios1861]

Andres Pratdesaba lol you're stupid

[@CardHandlers]

I thought she just had to be *T H I C C*

[@thunderflare59]

Every time two queen bees hatch simultaneously, I hear the Mortal Kombat theme.