/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4399261
mfw..

>>3229656, contindruid
(It is worth mentioning that all female bees have the potential to become queens or workers. All larvae are fed royal jelly for the first three days of their existence before being switched to a lesser sort of brood food. Female larvae destined to become queens, however, are fed royal jelly throughout their entire childhood, and the protein-rich food [containing a protein called royalactin that induces development into a queen] allows them to grow to a larger size and better-developed form [particularly with regard to their reproductive system] than their lesser sisters. Worker bees, however, can act as queens under certain circumstances. A queen produces a pheromone that keeps the workers' genitalia from developing, but in her absence, one or more workers may begin laying eggs, producing some queen pheromones, and collecting flocks of attendants who believe they are a queen. However, workers differ from queens in that they lack spermathecae, and hence cannot lay fertilized eggs, causing a hive infested with laying workers to quickly become filled with drones before dying off.)
>>3229523
A new queen typically mates with ten or so drones in quick succession during her mating flight. One thing I bet you didn't know is that her lady bits sever the drone's dude bits as part of copulation.
>>3229548
Drones also have a very distinctive begging behavior, so I'm told. They try to mooch off the workers in a way that other workers just don't do.

>>2139782

Hans Solo, going drive-by.

>>999945
it's not quite as long term, but there is a lot of deep sea exploration to be done and the technology to live at the bottom of the ocean would be very similar to that of living on the moon.

if you had people living on the moon what would you have them do besides set up shop?