What’s Inside a Beehive? 🐝
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Morning Busy Bee!
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Wait, where are you going!
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Durd!
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Durd.
The bee goes to the hive.
Not vice versa.
Say, what’s inside that thing anyway??
Put it down.
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So bees first appeared on Earth 130 MILLION years ago.
These guys outlived the dinosaurs.
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That’s just bad*ss.
But when it comes to their hive, we first meet a bunch of guard bees hanging out like bouncers at a bar.
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But because we’re a hot chick (and are from the hive), we get in.
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No literally, a beehive is 99% female.
The male bees are drone bees. Nobody really likes them. And they just mate with the queen bee and die.
Anyway, once inside the hive we find dozens of honeycombs - densely packed, hexagonal cells made of beeswax:
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This is where bees store food and raise eggs into larva.
Now, where’s the–
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Ahhh, yes! The queen!
She’s who all these worker bees are working for.
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And those male drone bees are hankering for.
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This queenie gives birth to every single bee in the colony – laying 1 egg every 20 seconds.
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Then…she dies.
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And a new queen hatches in the hive 8 days later!
Stay Cute,
Henry & Dylan 🌈
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