How Bees Build a Fair Socialism

Bees are a wonderful and amazing creation of God. Bees have socialism, monarchy and specific behaviors like humans. They lead tribal life. A bee colony consists of the colony or worker bees. Bees use completely different means to communicate with each other

There are generally three genera of bees, namely, worker bees, drone or male bees, and the natural queen bee.

The most amazing thing about bees is that the queen bee is the only fertile or reproductive one in their colony. This queen bee determines the colony of her incoming descendants. That is, before laying eggs, the queen bee determines which bee will belong to the hatched egg. All of them have different periods of maturity: 24 days for male bees, 21 days for workers and 16 days for queen bees.

Now let's know about the bee reproductive system.

There are generally 4 steps or stages in bee reproduction. A bee is complete after passing through these 4 stages. Stage four is the egg, larva, pupa and adult bee.

A bee's life cycle begins with its eggs. The eggs look like a small grain of rice. Only the queen bee is capable of laying eggs in a bee colony. That egg grows over time and eventually turns into a full-fledged bee.

The queen bee lays an egg in each cell of the hive. The eggs grow inside this shell. But here lies the mystery. If there is a small amount of dirt in the hive, the queen bee will not lay eggs there. So worker bees prepare hives to make them suitable for egg laying. The queen bee lays her eggs inside the hive as she likes.

Queen bees usually lay unfertilized eggs in larger hives and fertilized eggs in smaller hives. Fertilized eggs hatch into worker bees and unfertilized eggs hatch into male bees. The queen bee constantly copulates with mature male bees to fertilize the eggs. Surprisingly, the male bees die after mating with the queen bee. Although worker bees are female, they are infertile and cannot lay eggs.

Worker bees determine the size of the comb during hive construction Worker bees do a lot of work and have many responsibilities. So the ratio between male and worker bees is mainly maintained by worker bees

The larvae hatch within three days of egg laying. Larvae hatch very quickly and require large amounts of food as they grow rapidly.

Almost the entire life of a queen bee is spent laying eggs fertilized by male bees. A queen bee can lay about 2,000 or more eggs a day.

All larvae are fed royal jelly or special jelly until three days after hatching. Honey is the food allotted to worker and male bees. But for the first three days in the larval stage, all were fed royal jelly. After three days the worker bees prepare royal jelly just for the larva that will become the queen bee.

The third and final stage of the bee's life cycle is the pupa At this stage the shape of the bee is roughly formed. The shape gives an idea of ​​what the bee will look like. But before reaching the pupa stage, all larvae are covered by worker bees with a transparent covering made of wax. As a result, the larvae cannot come out before they are fully grown.

It is during this pupa stage that a bee's wings, eyes, legs, body hair are all formed. In this state, the body structure of the bee is complete and the organs are well formed. Then the bee breaks the wax cover and comes out. Once the hive is empty, the worker bees clean it

A human monarchy can be compared to the life cycle of bees. Rebellions are also organized here as per need. As multiple queens grow in the hive, the bee that matures first kills the others in hopes of becoming the queen herself.

The worker bees sacrifice their lives when the queen bees are threatened. Multiple workers surround the bees and create a warm cover to protect the queen bees during the winter. A queen bee can usually live up to seven years. But judging by the inability to lay eggs, worker bees can replace her.