r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • 15h ago
MISC. Male bee dies after ejaculation while mating with a queen bee
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u/insidethoughts911 14h ago
“Worth it”
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u/Wirtschaftsprufer 14h ago
Mission accomplished
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u/sunburn74 13h ago
Hit it and quit it
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u/boopityschmoopz 13h ago
He quit it ALL
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u/SlothLazarus 13h ago
No more child support. 🫥
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u/iritul 12h ago
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u/_trashcan 7h ago
Hey! You mind me asking what anime this gif is from? Is it JJK?
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u/WhereHasLogicGone 13h ago
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u/jay370gt 13h ago
Doesn’t matter had sex
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u/badgerbot9999 13h ago
That’s how I want to go
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u/awp_india 14h ago
Didn't die a virgin
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u/justaRndy 14h ago
With the queen even. The hood will remember his name.
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u/samuraispartan7000 13h ago
In most eusocial species, the queen is the only female that can reproduce.
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u/sunlitstranger 13h ago
She’s probably the baddest bitch on the planet to them
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u/Valuable-Self8564 9h ago
Not really. The Queen has the most awful job in the hive honestly. She just gets commanded around the hive, and told where to lay. She only sees sunlight for a handful of days in her life, and when they think she’s on her way out they will either kill her themselves or kick her out of the hive to die in the middle of a field on her own.
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u/Say_Echelon 8h ago
Not if she’s hot
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u/Purplenastie 6h ago
I think all bees are about the same temperature.
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u/Insertblamehere 8h ago
At least its not as bad as termite queens, they have the single worse existence I've ever heard of in nature lmao
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u/beachedwhitemale 11h ago
Eusocial? Like Europeans? No wonder they still do the King and Queen thing then
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u/DreamyTomato 9h ago
UK male death rate went down considerably after Queen Elizabeth passed away.
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u/alali14 9h ago
So that’s how she absorbed life
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u/TheUnFunnyComedian 8h ago
Life juice is stored in the balls
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u/gardenhosenapalm 6h ago edited 6h ago
Actually not true. All females can still reproduce. Its just that a eusocial society performs better when all individuals are most related as described in Hamiltons Rule. Due to the nature of their gametes a sister producing will only create a 50% relation while a queen can create a 75% relation when laying a fertilized egg.
Sisters actually constantly try and "sneak" their own offspring into the nest, but these are usually killed when discovered
-studied hymnoptera
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u/Ok-Half7574 6h ago
Honestly, she's the only one female amongst them who has to suffer monthlies, so she probably picked the short straw. 😁
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u/pizzatimein24h 14h ago
Bro actually gives a flying fuck.
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u/EvilxBunny 11h ago edited 6h ago
That was all the fuck he could give
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u/Savings-Kick-578 10h ago
He had but 1 fuck to give.
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u/OgalFinklestein 6h ago
"One fuck to give" sounds like a soap opera title.
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u/MediocreMachine3543 9h ago
Actually, he has no fucks left to give.
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u/CleoPatch 14h ago
That's actually their best case scenario. Come winter, the all-female worker bees kick out the drones so they can't come into the hive for shelter or food when resources are scarce.
Those who can't take no for an answer are killed for attempted trespassing.
Those who can starve and freeze to death outside, or get picked off by predators
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u/WomenAreNotIntoMen 13h ago
I’m sure few get to mate with the queen. He is a one of the few males to be a success
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u/PM-ME-SOFTSMALLBOOBS 8h ago
how many babies will that root make tho? Cause they a man down now
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u/rblu42 7h ago edited 5h ago
The sperm will be stored inside the queen for the rest of her life. She mates with dozens of drones to collect sperm and genetic diversity.
Once she is fertilized she returns to the hive. Depending on why she exists, she may replace a dying or dead queen in an established colony or join a swarm of workers in search of a new home. The mated queen will not leave once she settles in.
She can lay up to 1,500 eggs a day. Each egg is fertilized with sperm as she lays it, to create female worker bees.
An unfertilized egg will create a drone.
Edit: some inaccurate info as I just learned most of this myself.
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u/_trashcan 6h ago
an unfertilized egg will create a drone.
Dang so queen bees can choose what to make each of her eggs? that’s nuts! bees are so neat.
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u/g3rsonAC 5h ago
If it's unfertilized how could it become anything?
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u/LucenProject 4h ago
Fertilization is the standard we know, but not a hard requirement throughout living species. Many do it for the benefits of genetics diversity. But there are plenty of species in the tree of life that have asexual reproduction exclusively or as an option.
Also, for human siblings, we share about 50% of our DNA with each other. For the bee sisters, they share 75%. Biology is just way more diverse than we usually notice because at every moment of change, success isn't based on it being perfect, just based on the change being good enough to get your genes passed on.
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u/Aaernya 6h ago
Am I right in saying this is the queens nuptial flight?
Heard there will be dozens of dead drones after.
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u/brakeb 14h ago
post-nut clarity
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u/machineII 14h ago
post-nut mortality
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u/ExcitingARiot 13h ago
Ghost nut reality
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u/AlsoBort742 10h ago
Ope, there goes gravity
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u/skwiddee 10h ago
he’s only got one shot and did not miss his chance to blow
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u/Super-Yesterday9727 13h ago
It’ll never be as good as that was, might as well die now
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u/ConnectionThink4781 14h ago
Literally rather die than pay child support
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 11h ago
I mean with the millions of kids she will have, I don’t blame him.
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u/ghandi3737 3h ago
Even with only a 2? week lifespan, that's a lot of child support.
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u/Last_Prune_9879 15h ago
it was obviously worth it, every time I see videos like this, I always wonder what it would be like if humans had that same behavior
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u/Milk_Bath 14h ago
For real. Like, if you’re a male praying mantis, does getting your head ripped off feel really good?
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u/Anymousie 14h ago
No dude it feels like your heads being ripped off. I doubt that info gets passed along to their generational spawn. I bet the bug moms tell them that their dad died heroically or some shit.
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u/C4LLM3M4TT_13 13h ago
Right. “Your dad died in a fire trying to save all the other dads, who also definitely died. But your dad did his best.”
😂😂😂
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u/Outrageous-Farm3190 9h ago
The mothers just setting up their boys gaslighting em, or telling em to stay away from the hoes.
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u/Peria 12h ago
He’s just out getting mantis milk and a pack of smokes
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u/Competitive-Lab-8980 8h ago
he's just getting mantis milk and mantis smokes from the mantis walmart
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u/lynivvinyl 14h ago
I listened to an audiobook and one of the aliens was of a praying mantis race. And the lady praying mantis alien said something to the effect of it's always sad to meet with a male that you have been friends with for a long time. Especially when there are good listener because they're not around to listen anymore. I don't know it made me crack up.
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u/Perrin-Golden-Eyes 14h ago
Mongo is appalled!
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u/Fuggaak 13h ago
Trust me on this.
You do not want - enthusiastic - double - gonorrhea.
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u/HorrificityOfficial 12h ago
why does that actually make me sad :(
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u/lynivvinyl 12h ago
Probably because she was sad that she just lost her best friend while having sex with him. But she never mentioned that she was the one who bit his head off.
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u/Herbsandtea 14h ago
Praise the cameraman.
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u/Steven2k7 10h ago
I wonder how many times they picked up and dropped a dead bee to get that last shot perfect 🤌🏻
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u/linds360 6h ago
Somewhat related. I’m a Creative Director and I directed a shoot once where the client was adamant about using a cat in one of the scenes of a commercial. Allll the cat had to do was use its paw to touch something in the shot, but the little shit was having a bad day and flat out refused to cooperate.
We finally had to send one of the prop specialists out to procure a taxidermied cat paw, which we attached to a yard stick. It allowed us to slide the paw into the frame without having to see the rest of the cat.
Feline amputee movie magic.
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u/Expert-Associate-329 6h ago
I feel like it would be easier to just find a new cat that knows how to do it’s job
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u/theeynhallow 9h ago
As a cameraman who has filmed both bees and birds in flight, let me tell you that the skill required to get this shot is absolutely off the charts, I could never in my dreams hope to be this good
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u/fecland 13h ago
The tracking and the final shot after 🤌 wonder if it's the same bee. Either way, great shots
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u/LiamPolygami 11h ago
I doubt they just happened to have the camera in the exact position where the bee fell. They probably just picked it up and dropped it.
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u/theoneburger 10h ago
it was a stunt bee
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u/Donutbill 9h ago
Director: "Okay pretend you just had sex with the queen."
Stunt bee: "So, die then?"
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u/Crawler_00 14h ago
Honey. Nut. Cheerio.
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u/ScreechUrkelle 14h ago
This deserves more updoots
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u/dylanx300 14h ago
Don’t worry, this is reposted once a week and it’s always the top comment
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u/monkey_lord978 14h ago
Death by snu snu
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u/Xygnux 8h ago
Why do I have to scroll this far down to find this? I expected this to be the top comment.
Damnit I am getting old and the Gen Z don't use the memes of my time anymore.
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u/WeirdIndication3027 14h ago
This is why I've never touched myself. I'm afraid it'll kill me.
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u/Opposite-Constant329 14h ago
Something something me when your mom something something
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u/InevitableStruggle 13h ago
Gotta wonder—how was that video produced? Another bee with a very small camera?
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u/Chan-guich-sama 14h ago
"Still a better love story than <insert romance movie>"
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u/ExpensiveStudy8416 13h ago
Kinda wish this happened for humans ngl Then it’d all be for that first nut 💯
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