How Bees Choose Their Queen

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

1:35 Vitamin bee

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

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.

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

Royal jelly = taxes

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

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

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.

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

thanks for this.. I needed answers

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

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

Vitamin BEE you say???

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

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

game of thrones happens every time a queen bee dies

So it's not through a democratic process.

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

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