Among the many bees, the worker bees are the biggest winners? In everyone's impression, the worker bee is the queen bee's "nanny", for the queen bee to deal with trivial matters, so in people's view, the status of the worker bee is very low, but in fact, the status of the worker bee is not as low as people think, it often kills the male bee, today let us walk into the world of bees, to see if the status of the worker bee is as low as people think?
First, the tragic male bee
Bees differ from other animals in many ways, especially in terms of the status of males and females. In many animal races, the male status is very high, many females even have to rely on the male life, so people who do not understand the bee life habits and racial relations, may think that in the bee race, the status of the male is higher, the status of the female is lower, but the fact is just the opposite, in the bee race, the female status is higher, and the queen bee is held by the female.
When we collect honey in the wild or raise our own bees to collect honey, we all know that in the process of honey picking, the queen bee does have a high status in the bee race, and the male bee has almost no status, the female bee is the main labor force for honey collection, the male bee has no talent at all in honey collection, as a bee, honey picking is the most important work, if the male bee does not carry out honey collection work, it must be subject to people in terms of survival, and the male bee's food is very large, so the male bee is greatly limited by the female bee in terms of survival. Especially in the winter, in fact, in ordinary times, worker bees and queens are still very willing to "care" for male bees, after all, the breeding of female bees also needs the help of male bees. However, in the winter, because the stored food is very limited, the male bees that eat a large amount will be rejected, and even the male bees that are driven out of the hive will soon lose their lives in the face of cold weather and no food to provide calories.
Sometimes, the worker bees also have to kill the male bees, directly kill the male bees, but throw their bodies out of the hive, so that many people are very sighing, may see here, many people will have questions, if the male bees are exterminated, then how will the queen bee give birth to the next generation? In fact, the queen bee to conceive the next generation is still different from other animals, other animals are male and female mating, produce fertilized eggs, but this fertilized egg can not be stored, which means that after the male and female mating, they can produce fertilized eggs, there must be a certain time limit, but for the bees, it is not so, male and female after mating, the queen bee can store fertilized eggs, so that there is no need to mate with the male bees for a long time, so the worker bees can be so unscrupulous, Kill the male bees. Of course, worker bees will not kill all male bees quickly, and will leave a part of the female bees. The male bee that is left behind will also listen to the orders of the queen bee and the worker bee, after all, whoever controls the economic ability will have the right to speak.
Second, the worker bee is the biggest winner
Knowing the bee race, we all know that there is a strange phenomenon among them, that is, the task of the queen bee is only to breed the next generation of bees, and it is the worker bees who take care of the bees. There are also many people who think that the worker bee is the queen bee's "nanny", the worker bee exempts the queen of bees from worries, takes care of the queen bee's children and arranges the life of the bee, from here, the worker bee plays an irreplaceable role in the bee population, even greater than the role of the queen bee, because the queen bee is mainly responsible for mating and breeding, and the follow-up work of the bee population is arranged by the worker bee, so to see. Of course, it is undeniable that the role of the queen bee is very critical, if there is no queen bee, the bee race has no future to speak of, but the worker bee, as the "nanny" of the queen bee, also plays a vital role.
Because from the mouth of the worker bee, it is possible to secrete some nutrients that are conducive to the growth of the young bees, so that the young bees can thrive. To become a dutiful nanny of the queen bee, most people think that the worker bee willingly makes a "nanny" for the queen bee because the worker bee has no way to lay eggs, but the fact is not so, it is able to lay eggs, in fact, the relationship between the worker bee and the next queen bee, that is, its sisters, will be closer than the blood relationship between the two queens. Why?
The relationship between the worker bee and the next queen bee is nothing more than two, one is a half-sister, one is a half-sibling, according to relevant data, the genes inside the male bee are all inherited to their next generation, which means that the worker bee inherits all the genetic material of the female bee, and the next generation of the queen bee inherits half of the genetic material of the previous generation of the queen bee, and half of the genetic material of the male bee, and in nature there is a formula that calculates the intimacy index between the worker bee and the worker bee, which is 0.25+ 0.5 divided by 1, so that if you look at it this way, if you calculate the relationship between the worker bee and the next generation of queen bees with such a calculation formula, it should be 0.75, and the relationship with the two generations of queen bees is maintained at 0.5, so in fact, the relationship between the worker bee and the next queen bee is closer than the relationship between the two generations of queen bees, so many people think that in fact, the final winner in the bee population is the worker bee. Not only do you not have to give birth to the next generation yourself, but also have a "outstanding" next generation.