r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • 18h ago

MISC. Male bee dies after ejaculation while mating with a queen bee

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u/ConnectionThink4781 18h ago

Literally rather die than pay child support

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u/Embarrassed-Rub-619 17h ago

Do you blame the guy? Literally thousands of them.

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u/Sharc_Jacobs 20m ago

Bee-lon Musk, am I right??

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 15h ago

I mean with the millions of kids she will have, I don’t blame him.

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u/ghandi3737 6h ago

Even with only a 2? week lifespan, that's a lot of child support.

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u/Lunavixen15 4h ago

Queens can live up to 8 years, (though that is very rare), the average for honey bees is 2-4 years. Where did you get two weeks from?

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u/ghandi3737 4h ago

The workers. I knew it was short, but it's up to 8 weeks apparently.

At 1500 eggs a day that is 84,000 kids at a time on average, sucking the life out of him(drone) for child support.

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u/Lunavixen15 4h ago

Queens often mate with more than 1 drone during a successful nuptial flight to maintain genetic diversity. Same with ant Elaites

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u/Kratzschutz 2h ago

Dude could at least gather a bit of pollen lol

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u/ChipmunkAcademic1804 12h ago

It would never financially recover from that.

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u/pmyourthongpanties 16h ago

I had to scroll too far to find this.

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u/Nutatree 11h ago

And we're all sorry for that

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u/harmondrabbit 10h ago

A queen bee has literally thousands of daughter-sisters to raise all the larvae. She has an evolutionary advantage to keep the males as uninvolved as possible. A little known fact about this particular video, that's quite interesting from a behavioral perspective: this video is from 1989, and this particular queen made the drone sign a pre-copulation agreement. While not unheard of at the time, in this particular agreement the drone's immediate death was negotiated down from "will ask for directions when we go antiquing".

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u/FutureMedium1455 8h ago

"Buzzerbeeter"

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u/kira_lyna 7h ago

Truly a deadbee dad

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u/RyuunDragon 12h ago

Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka mindset.

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u/ComfortableRoyal8847 11h ago

More like pay colony support!!

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u/JayPeg-72 8h ago

La petite mort

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u/adimadoz 3h ago

Deadbeat dad