queen

[KrayzeeKing]

At the end of this video is so sad becuase the workers get mad at the queen and attack her. :(

[GhostOfTheAngels]

Man, what a bitch.

[theblacktippingpoint]

tough living...

[theblacktippingpoint]

that queen.....ate babies?

[SeanACampbell]

What a loving god, a queen who eats her workers offspring and offspring who sting the queen to death.

[robomantis]

@SeanACampbell The queen does it for good reason. The males produced by workers sometimes have genetic problems. Almost like inbreeding.

[SeanACampbell]

@robomantis Haha yeah I know, I just found it slightly amusing :). Thanks for the response though - I love biology.

[koolcid2598]

what does a king bee look like?????!!!!!!! 0_o

[robomantis]

@koolcid2598 He looks like a really hairy worker. Those males mate with queens in the fall and then die.

[lilg49ifyify]

ooo a snow bee



[welcome1007]

help i have a beehive in my summer house what should i do week 5 lol size of a tennis ball i only ever c 1 be workn on it every day

[ertekkiadgrinast]

Communism

[EvilSandwiche]

@ertekkiadgrinast Capatalism

[flubberdubber]

@EvilSandwiche Socialism

[jmr1068204]

So one question...

From where do queens originate? How do they get their 'queen' status to go off alone like this and start a colony from scratch? If she comes from another already-existing nest, how did she stop having new baby bees in order to just up and leave the colony? Obviously, queen bees were parented by other bees - are queens a mixting of two different kinds of bees or something? Or are all female bees capable of producing thousands of bees per day once given 'queen' status?

[linguadigatt0]

@jmr1068204 the "queen" status is given by the diet. a young bee properly fed with royal jelly turns into a queen. when a bee nest is too big for a queen, she breeds another queen (or many of them). when they are fully grown they can take a part of the bees and go to another place to start a new colony. sometimes they kill the mother or force her to leave.

[david052856]

@linguadigatt0 No you have this mixed up with honeybees.

[linguadigatt0]

@david052856 yeah I was talking about bees that make honey... are these ones not bees?

[david052856]

@jmr1068204 The queen senses the change of the season and she lays special eggs that will develop into full fledged queens. Then these new queens go out and mate then hibernate over winter and the cycle starts again. Never do bumblbees split and swarm.

[JaclynGarrett]

SCARY!!!

BEE'S R FREAKY!!!

AHHHH!!

[aceman4564564]

wow youtubshuld rally bain these stupid frikken comercials

[ZergPhysics]

Wow that video is going to give me nightmares lol



[MrArturo164]

ohh thats intense

[mzh3000]

omnomnom

[Curttehmurt]

do all bee colonies kill their queen?

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

all insect colonies kill their queens eventually, otherwise such a nice neat orderly society would limit individual competition and genetic variety.

[Isuzulu]

bitch, u ate my eggs *sting sting sting*

[linguadigatt0]

@Isuzulu ahahah yeah!

[RobLeepopart]

BBC shits all over any other network

[Nelieciamasis]

great video , learned much

[Parkjisung91]

it's so amazing how the newborns know what to do immediately

it doesn't seem to us humans that they get trained personally, systematically as organized.

they must have something of their own but...wow isn't this amazing.

[MePlease2211]

I saw a bee carying an egg or pollin or something, and watched it dig a hole then leave. Too bad for it I was digging in that spot to even out a dirt road.

[HUNTER676]

i thought they were bigger cause i saw a very big insect that looked exactly like a bee

[iPewn]

Well tbh you shouldn't go eating other peoples babies (:

[katejarvis1]

that little baby is kinda cute

[MegaUnreal]

dang thats kinda sick like first the queen makes the nest then the workers kill her that aint fair

[nhiapthao]

long live the queen!!! At least they show us that her vanity is pretty high...even for an insect.

[xtreamcraziez]

this is cool .really cooooool

[TheJustineWho]

how do bees make hives to beegin with

[magprob]

University of Minnesota sells a book on how to raise Bumble Bees. We should all move forward to help them out a little if we can.

Nothing makes me happier while working in my garden than to have a Bumble Bee pay a visit!

[rngpro]

bees are amazing creatures, i love them.

[BNSF9250]

@rngpro they really are . but i must say out of no will of my own i have a bumble bee phobia so i cant bee near them. but i think they are amazing nun the less and as anything we should try to have them kept safe;

[Max0Inq]

God save the Queen!

[trooper59]

i wish i had a bumble bee nest in my yard :(

they're a more docile compared to honeybees and more awesome to look at, since they're HUUUGE

[johnny10301968]

Are there any drones in the bumblebee colony?

[DulBeat]

wait, so these things have full scale civil wars?

[trooper59]

@DulBeat

i think the bees are also incestuous

Queen lays male eggs which are her "sons" and mate with them i believe.

ew..

[DulBeat]

So they're all British then?

[k3nnyinab0x]

fuzzy :D

[Legoking45]

I wonder how they get they catch this footage? do they use a microscopic camera?

[nousernameideasleft]

I thought that a queen usually leaves the nest after laying male and new queen eggs to go burrow and try to outlast the winter, not get killed by her subjects.

[david052856]

only the new queens do that, the old die =(

[xMattyManu94x]

he so furry ^

[NinjaRiise]

I'd put my hand in there and pluck the Queens legs.

[david052856]

why thats cruel.....

[jamiepoultonadult]

makes my skin crawl

[david052856]

Why they are adorable and cute =)

[pkjacklinehan]

why do they attack the queen?

[ariadarabi]

They attacked the queen because she was eating their eggs and they didn't like that.

[david052856]

Because she is viewed as compition when the pheremone is no longer produced.

[ElliFong]

how about a human shaped queen bee?

[10DEEEP]

no boy bumble bee? lol

[Legoking45]

lol :51 -:54 PUSH!!! PUSH!!! the baby's here :P

[born2bewild100]

i think bee's are fascinating!

[AZngsta2]

Looks like the realistic bees i c in kids drawings wow

[him050]

How the hell do they film that?

[markopalma]

lol i can't figure it out too... =/

[Colin24Astonwood]

Do you mean the filming or the bees making there nest etc? If its the filming, With technology today its quite easy to put a small camera inside a bee hive/nest

[paladinsephiroth]

kill the queen

Queen: dumbasses were all gonna die!!!!

[ElliFong]

lol that bee worker is a spy.

[comrade112]

just throw a granade in there

[losert22]

there sooooooooo cute!!

[maculifrons]

This video is simply amazing. I loved it

[undertaker6102005]

flamethrower

[lilyankee2313]

ok i find bees rely nasty

[tabascocemtec]

Fascinating!

[alyshira]

does anyone know what show this is from?

i'm doing a midterm on the queen bee for my term paper (taking an insect biology class for my GE)

[slayerman89]

Sounds like the narrator from Planet Earth, but don't quote me on that. ;)

[him050]

David Attenborough! WOOP. :L

[emmilooo2]

WOOP WOOP!

[tangerbite]

I've always wondered how the queen bee comes about and how a nest is controlled with female bees especially when there is only one queen bee laying eggs....I'm glad you put this up...it helps explain a lot. Thanks!!

[keve202]

owned

[JMRprductions]

its sad that the queens kids kill her i cryed from that

[Jings0b]

You cried from watching a bug died?

[mcatv]

Hell yeah!, fuck the system!!

[JackBond1234]

Kudos to whoever operated the cameras for this. :D

Poor queen D:

[yezidi11]

Nice video ,why did they killed the queen?

[Tekkenfreek234]

I am only watching this because I had a bee come into my home not too long ago and I had to set it free.

[keovo11]

i really like this video.

i like the part when they stung their Queen!

that was really fun to watch!now

i feel like Bees R On Me!

[u7alll]

dumb queen bee if i was a queen bee id kkep on having eggs and let the worker bees lay eggs

[TolaMacarino]

The colony would be overrun and the queen would lose track of the pace of things.

It is not the workers' jobs to lay eggs - they are the drones. The queen does what she knows is right for the colony, and that is why she produces the queen mandibular pheremone.

Although I must say she lived her last days as the colony slut!

[jkvgrgmfrj]

Tonight we dine in HONEY NUT CHEERIOS!!!!!!!

[newman20072008]

lol lol

[Farrowstrike]

LMFAO

[martezymosby]

this is SPARTA

[annayang692]

insted of chick fight BEE FIGHT!

[w33dd00d]

wow ur funny

[hazeleyesforever]

bitch queen got what she deserved

[freddykruegerfan101]

@hazeleyesforever damn straight

[NoobSlayer247]

:D :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[ilovesmitten]

aww she looks fuzzy~

[KamikazeSound]

heheeh i don't agree with your prengancy! gobble gobble gobble gobble!

[Rhynorune]

Vespiquen!

[xitsxsomeonex]

I love bubmlebees, they're my favourite bug! They're such adorable insects. :)

[xitsxsomeonex]

I love bumblebees, they're adorable insects! :)

[BEAR1ER]

that was hardcore

[dilandauomi]

I heart Bumblebees, I use to have a nest I could watch when I was younger.

[tage92]

Its goofy :P i got a fobi about these

[CoolaCreations]

hah, DOWN WITH THE QUEEN!