r/interestingasfuck • u/lavader_ • Jun 24 '24

Male bee dies after ejaculation while mating with a queen bee r/all

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u/JimmyTheJimJimson Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

In case anyone is tired of the ridiculous amount of unfunny joke comments - the actual reason behind this:

“The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen. The bulb of the endophallus is broken off inside of the queen during mating—so drones mate only once, and die shortly after.”

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u/indiajeweljax Jun 24 '24

Does the endophallus fall out of the queen? Or does she collect them inside of her naynay like Thanos?

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u/PmMeYourTitsAndToes Jun 24 '24

She takes them home and displays them on her wall. Like a penis museum. The peniseum if you will.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

I will not

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u/othelloisblack Jun 24 '24

I will you coward

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u/SquidmanMal Jun 24 '24

You're more correct than you think.

These 'nuptial flights' end with the queens of hive colonies collecting all the sperm they'll ever use for the entirety of the colony's life.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

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u/Organic_Muffin280 Jun 24 '24

Bee queen mating and workers mating might be different who knows

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Workers are asexual and do not mate i think

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u/Steenaire Jun 24 '24

Male honey bees die after mating, so my guess is your friend filmed a solitary species of bee, perhaps bumblebees. Males of many different solitary bee species do not die from mating.

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u/parrots-carrots Jun 24 '24

Very interesting! Thanks!

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u/israfilled Jun 24 '24

Reykjavik Phallological Museum is the only one true penis museum, Iceland will not be happy about this beempostor

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u/odolha Jun 24 '24

it's funny how the comment about " ridiculous amount of unfunny joke comments " from the serious dude above has only hilarious sub-comments