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edinathens 1050 reads
posted
1 / 17

I asked Google Gemini a question about sexual differentiation in honeybees, and I pasted the answer here.
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The Queen Bee:
The queen is the mother of the colony and the only bee that can lay fertilized eggs, ensuring the continuation of the colony.
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Worker Bees:
These are all female and are responsible for tasks like foraging for nectar and pollen, building and maintaining the hive, and caring for the young.
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Drones:
Male bees whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen. They do not have stingers or the ability to collect food.

holystonethedeck 104 Reviews 71 reads
posted
2 / 17

Posted By: edinathens

I asked Google Gemini a question about sexual differentiation in honeybees, and I pasted the answer here.
Why??

edinathens 58 reads
posted
4 / 17

Colony collapse is a major threat to our agricultural system which depends on honeybees to pollenate our crops. So I got curious as to what happens, if the queen herself dies. AI said, "Bees create new queens through a process where worker bees select young larvae and feed them a special diet of royal jelly. This diet, rich in hormones and nutrients, triggers the larvae to develop into queens, rather than worker bees. The worker bees also construct larger, peanut-shaped queen cells to accommodate the growing queen larvae.". Then, I was curious as to how the colony itself was organized, and it's evident they have a great system for the males.

mrfisher 115 Reviews 63 reads
posted
5 / 17
hehitshewins 66 reads
posted
6 / 17

Link below for where you might find more like minded bee people.

coeur-de-lion 400 Reviews 58 reads
posted
7 / 17

It's too late for you to worry about this.  

RespectfulRobert 89 reads
posted
8 / 17

Are you saying you are female NOW and looking to become male? Did I miss something Mr Fish? lol.

mrfisher 115 Reviews 73 reads
posted
9 / 17

the lying around doing nothing but oofing all day sounds attractive.

WIMissScarlet See my TER Reviews 79 reads
posted
10 / 17

I actually thought the worker bees were male, so I learned something today!!

edinathens 69 reads
posted
11 / 17

That was my assumption, too. Some of the worker bees take on the role of guard bees and defend the hive. As Gemini AI  describes it, "Guard bees are female. All worker bees, including guard bees, are female. They are responsible for defending the hive, inspecting incoming bees, and alerting the colony to threats. Male bees, called drones, do not perform guard duties and have different roles within the hive."

coeur-de-lion 400 Reviews 56 reads
posted
12 / 17

But then they started giving equal pay to all workers, so now there are female worker bees as well as drones, which are the equivalent version of transgenders in the bee world.  

WIMissScarlet See my TER Reviews 67 reads
posted
13 / 17

Who would have ever thought we would have learned some factual information from this gawd damn website. LOL

ickylib 59 reads
posted
14 / 17

You can always tell if it's a slow day.  

For me, when I don't have a single client call before noon; the markets are literally flat; and there are goofy posts on TER that make the rest of us blink, roll our eyes, and wonder what is wrong with the world.

coeur-de-lion 400 Reviews 65 reads
posted
15 / 17

telling him it's a fuck board and then linking an article about bees.  You proved he came to the right place.   BEE proud of being a drone.  Lol

edinathens 67 reads
posted
16 / 17

Better link http://thebfarm.com/blogs/news/queen-bees-vs-worker-bees-vs-drones-the-differences .
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"Drone bees don’t do any work within the colony, and their life consists of eating and mating [i.e. fucking]. Because queens only need them once, they can’t feed themselves, and they have no stinger to protect the colony, the male drone bees live a short life reliant on the worker bees."

holystonethedeck 104 Reviews 85 reads
posted
17 / 17


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