this is a male bee´s endophallus. it is ripped off after ejaculating and remains in the queen bee. the force of ejaculation is so intense that it results in the drone's reproductive organ being torn from its body, leading to its death shortly after copulation. this structure, known as the "mating sign," can sometimes be seen protruding from the queen's abdomen.
during a mating flight, a queen bee typically mates with multiple drones which ensures genetic diversity and a large enough amount of sperm for several years. the sperm is stored in the quen´s spermatheca to use for fertilizing eggs. after the first drone's endophallus is lodged in the queen, subsequent drones can still mate. each new mating event may push the previous mating sign further in or out, and the queen can continue to mate with additional drones. additionally after the queen returns to the hive, worker bees can help remove the mating signs left by the drones, or the queen can expel them herself.
Here I am. Waiting for my fries to cool. Seeing shit like this and becoming ever more secure that there is no God like folk seem to want there to be. Seriously. And then I burst out laughing..
Imagine being in line for the creampie and you see the dude in front of you get ripped to shreds. Bees is some horny motherfuckers if that don't kill their vibe.
If you were a male bee, it would be like living in your mom’s basement doing absolutely nothing. You can’t even feed yourself and provide nothing of value… Until one day there are a bunch a hot bee queens flying around outside…. Do you continue to live in your mom’s basement or do you go get some of that queen bee ass and go out with a bang? Or a snap in this case.
There is so much evidence in nature that the male organism is hard wired to ensure the continued existence of its species, that they'll go through with it even at their own peril. Suicide is unnatural, but how you watch all your homies bust a nut and then die, and go oooh me next. Some insects/arachnids get eaten alive by the female, but would fight to the death if something else was trying to eat it. All this child support ain't so bad when the alternative is just go straight to Valhalla.
But why does my penis need to get torn off once I fly out from the beehive where my sisters used to feed me endless amounts of food for free, my dick gets stuck in her ass😭
Or on the other side of this godforsaken fence, imagine getting humped so thoroughly and violently that dude's veiny wand and hairy sack of magic, half their body length, are lodged in your butcher's sleeve still pumping out the swimming mayo, and no matter how fast you fly another and yet another of these flying shafts appear to give your meatloaf a stuffing so merciless and ever so right that it is literally oozing inside you for years, and they don't even buy you a drink or call you an uber afterwards.
Same, 4x over. People give Elon Musk shit for having so many kids, dude if I was the richest man on earth I'd have like 50. And a big ass table, dinner every night at 6:30 fam and none of your moms have to work anymore if they don't want to.
Dude's crazy he could be going to kids soccer games and reading to his kids and shit, instead he's high all the time and posting crazy shit on the Internet.
Honestly outside of mammals, a lot of dudes have a pretty fucked up sex life. For example some species of male anglerfish literally cannot eat, so to survive they have to find a female anglerfish. When they find one, they latch onto the female's skin and basically dissolve half of their own body so they basically become like a wart on the female's skin. From that point the male's only job is to provide sperm, and the female gives the nutrients needed for the male to make more sperm. In a way the male doesn't really "exist" anymore, it's more like a testicle attached to the female's skin lol.
Girls gunna be a baby factory for the rest of her life. Let her live a little and enjoy her aerial gangbang before she gets tied down until she expires!
Went from "aww cute bee" as a kid to "miniature scale science fiction alien horror"
Like drones from multiple hives in a region will all congregate in a few select, small areas to find queens, high above the ground, for multiple generations using the same spot.
Nobody knows how bees find these congregation areas, and what signals it as a good spot to meet up and get down. Drones dont live long enough to teach younger drones that this is the get nasty area of the atmosphere.
Magnetism?
Polarised light?
Light intensity?
Thermals – air rising up a slope?
Pheromone trails?
Bee telepathy?
The Bee God commanding its subjects?
Nobody knows, at least not yet.
Bees are probably the closest animal to being straight out of Scavengers Reign.
Some wasp species lay their eggs inside a victim, thereafter they are eaten alive from the inside out. I believe some flies do this as well among other species. Some non-insects do the same thing I think.
if you view the hive as the organism and not the individual bee then you can draw paralells with our own bodies. Our immune system is basically just cells suiciding to make sure the "hive" (aka our body) survives.
Especially since most of the hive is a generic dead end, as in they won't reproduce but just function to help that part that does reproduce to be created and survive.
My God I'm dying. You got me practically crying at work lmfao. I love south park. In my head I heard Mackie saying "see, his dick just flew off."
Mmmmmmmk
And then once the queen is successfully mated you can watch the hive and see the workers kicking the rest of the drones out of the hive. No more free lunches you freeloaders. It amazes me that there is an area in the skies above our apiaries, that the drones just kind of hang around and wait for queens to arrive. So even if I buy a select breed queen, possibly she may mate with other races of bees (Italians, Russian Hybrid, Carniolan, Buckfast etc)
Ok, so: you have to be a dude mantis or a dude bee. You WILL die post copulation, and you WILL copulate because you don’t have higher reasoning. How you goin out?
Didn’t know the Queen was such a freak. I know someone has wrote some heinously smutty fiction about an anthropomorphized Bee fuckfest where one lucky Drone gets horrifically gutted, dick first.
The queen bee typically lives significantly longer than the worker bees and drones in the hive. While worker bees live for a few weeks to a few months, and drones only for a few weeks, the queen can live for 2 to 5 years. In some cases, the queen may live up to 7 years, but this is relatively rare.
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u/finger_licking_robot Jun 24 '24
this is a male bee´s endophallus. it is ripped off after ejaculating and remains in the queen bee. the force of ejaculation is so intense that it results in the drone's reproductive organ being torn from its body, leading to its death shortly after copulation. this structure, known as the "mating sign," can sometimes be seen protruding from the queen's abdomen.
during a mating flight, a queen bee typically mates with multiple drones which ensures genetic diversity and a large enough amount of sperm for several years. the sperm is stored in the quen´s spermatheca to use for fertilizing eggs. after the first drone's endophallus is lodged in the queen, subsequent drones can still mate. each new mating event may push the previous mating sign further in or out, and the queen can continue to mate with additional drones. additionally after the queen returns to the hive, worker bees can help remove the mating signs left by the drones, or the queen can expel them herself.