The Queen honey bee has sex with an average of 17-20 males in a single afternoon.
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What is the point of that I wonder?
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It’s so she can have a gazillion baby bees, she lays eggs in the individual cells made by the worker beeds, they feed the babies, who grow into worker beeds. And we’d all die without bees. They’re the main pollinators.
So every time she has sex, the Queen bee lays some eggs in a hive cell? Then she has sex again, lays more eggs in a hive cell, and repeats this 17-20 times in an afternoon? No lying around eating Queen Bee bonbons for her! I finally understand the origin of the phrase “busy bee”. Thank you.