The original organisms on the earth are "anaerobic bacteria", when the earth's environment is very harsh, whether it is in the atmosphere or in the ocean oxygen content is very low, until the "great oxidation event" occurs, the earth has become a planet rich in oxygen, the increase in oxygen content has promoted the diversification and complexity of organisms, the evolution of organisms can not be separated from reproduction, including us humans, if we humans do not reproduce will be extinct, in fact, the earth before there were many organisms, But most organisms will not pass on their genes and drown in the long river of history, but we humans learn how to successfully pass on their genes to the present, it can be said that the creatures that have not been extinct to this day have maintained the nature of reproduction, since reproduction is a good thing, why is the queen bee so domineering and does not let the worker bees breed their offspring to grow the population? Today, Xiaobian will talk to you about this problem.
Genetics determine the strength or weakness of a population
From a biological point of view, the meaning of life is to "transmit genes", that is, "reproduction". In a complex and changeable environment, passing on their own genes, so how to pass on good genes is an important key bee colony that breeds longer in a population is no exception. First of all, the eggs laid by worker bees are unfoliated, and according to the breeding habits of bees, they are likely to become male bees. These male bees, regardless of their own condition or genetic performance, are inferior to the unfertilized eggs produced by the queen bee and the male bees hatched, so they are not suitable as male bees for the breeding of bee colonies.
And we all know that the male bee is idle all day, does not participate in any labor, and the only role of the amazing amount of food is to find the queen to cross the tail. Then this kind of male bees that can not be used as reproduction, if a large number of bee colonies appear in the bee colony, it will definitely lead to huge food consumption of the bee colony, and the serious ones will cause the bee colony to lack food, thus causing the bee colony to divide the bee or fly away, etc., of course, there is also a 1% chance of allowing the worker bee to produce fertilized eggs, American scientists have found that the bee and the italian bee also have the probability of the worker bee laying fertilized eggs, but this probability is very small, only 1%, so the strength of 1 bee colony is not determined by the number but comprehensive consideration such as disease resistance, lifespan, collection power and so on.
Worker bees do not decide for themselves
When the bee colony appears to lay eggs, the beekeeper thinks that the worker bee is restless and keeps to itself, committing chaos, but this is really not the pot of the worker bee, in fact, the worker bees are all hard work, the worker bees are not born if the worker bees want to give birth, only the bee colony is chaotic, the worker bees are abnormally developed, and the ovaries have to be developed to give birth. Worker bees are actually the same as the queen bee is the same as the fertilized egg development, but the way the worker bee and the queen of the bee are raised is not the same, the worker bee did not eat enough royal jelly, the development is not complete, and the stunted development causes it to have no ability to lay eggs. This is a pity for the worker bee, so it will always seek opportunities for redevelopment. Of course, this is not the subjective consciousness of the worker bee, but only the instinct of the organism, and completing the development is the pursuit of life.
But the worker bee no longer has the opportunity to eat royal jelly, but also secrete royal jelly to feed the larvae and queen bees, in the hive also by the queen bee pheromone and larval pheromone restrictions, inhibit ovarian development, has been in an undeveloped state, has been doing industrious little bees. This is the fate of each worker bee, and the worker bee can only live a puppet-like life. However, everything is variable, and the fate of the worker bee is not completely predestined. Therefore, the fact that the worker bee has to give birth is not decided by the worker bee itself, but by the absence of larval care. In the lost royal group, when the long-term severed child, even if there is a queen bee, there will be a worker bee.
So the queen bee is not domineering, it will not prohibit the worker bees from laying eggs, the queen bee in the swarm is just a birth machine. If the production is insufficient, the order of the bee colony is chaotic, not only the bee colony can not develop, the labor enthusiasm of the worker bee will not have honey, then the worker bee will come out to lay eggs, so the worker bee does not lay eggs by themselves is to sacrifice themselves to protect the bee colony, and is not threatened by the queen bee.