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Karyoplasma

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  • Royal jelly for queens is stored in special compartments that are constructed specifically to rear a new queen and they drop the larvae in there. Wikipedia has a pic.

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  • Other insects mostly. Technically also birds, but birds are too quick and too strong so the fight is usually over before the bee can sting.

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  • Bees don't die when they sting. They have a barbed stinger, human skin is elastic and that's why they get stuck. Our first reaction is to swat or swipe on the site of stinging which rips their stinger off by force. If you leave the bee alone, it will wiggle and twirl around, trying to get itself unstuck and sometimes that is successful, sometimes they're fucked. The bee didn't really commit suicide when stinging, you killed it.

    Also, did you know that the queen bee has almost full control over their offspring? It works like this: The queen bee only mates once in her life during the nuptial flight and stores the sperm in her spermatheca (like a sperm sac), the drone usually dies in the process because mating tears their endophallus off and the trauma kills him. After founding a colony the queen can now choose whether to fertilize her eggs or not and if she does, a female larva will hatch from the fertilized egg, else a drone larva will hatch through a process called haploid parthenogenesis.

    The destiny of becoming a queen or a worker depends entirely on the diet the female larva is fed: all larvae are fed royal jelly (a special secretion from worker bees) for a few days and then worker bees are switched to what is called bee bread which is a mix of pollen and nectar while future queens stay on the royal jelly diet. The royal jelly lets the bees develop their ovaries, making them capable of laying eggs. Technically, all worker bees can lay eggs (which could only produce drones), but in a healthy colony, they will be switched off the royal jelly soon enough so that this rarely occurs.

    So, in a way, worker bees can stage a mutiny if they are unhappy with their current queen by feeding a larva royal jelly, rearing a new queen.

    Bees are awesome.

  • he loves his bribes

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  • It's still corruption tho. Whether or not they misrepresent that dude I know nothing about doesn't take away from the fact that Trump is as easily bribed as a toddler.

  • Conservative Radio Host Brutally Roasts Trump Accepting Plane From Qatar: It’s From the ‘Same Money Used to Kill Americans’

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  • I just find it difficult to believe that one can live for 79 years and be that stupid.

  • Trump’s free plane is not so free

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  • The AFO replacement was never meant to be taken seriously, it was just to make the bribery less obvious to his cult. It's the classic seed of doubt that fascists like to spread, so their gullible supporters and enablers can calm themselves down before the cognitive dissonance that they actually just support/enable fascism sets in. All it was is a ruse, the aircraft was always meant to go to Trump's "personal library after Jan 2029".

  • Conservative Radio Host Brutally Roasts Trump Accepting Plane From Qatar: It’s From the ‘Same Money Used to Kill Americans’

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  • I don't understand, is Trump just trying to be an edgelord? Or is it the only thing he has left to convince his cult that he is playing 5D chess? Or is he simply a moron?

  • Germany bans far-right 'Kingdom of Germany' group

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  • It's not about the form of government, they mainly want to live out their hatred without feeling the reproach of the community.

  • And you think YOUR job sucks

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  • Ohhh I'd love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener

  • Minutes after feeding...

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  • Add anchovies and that would be the perfect pizza for me.

  • Uncultured

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  • Korrekt ist Nadel. Wenn sie aus Metall ist, kann man auch Pinke dazu sagen.

  • Plasma is just incredible

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  • Aww, thanks.

  • Nine out of ten dentists approve!

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  • I put more faith into placebos than in homeopathy. At least the placebo effect held up to scrutiny.

  • Marshmallow Test

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  • They'll jump in your mouth.

  • Trump posts all-caps plea to China in early morning hours

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  • Prices only ever go up, except (wanted to write eggcept) for raw materials. Supply and demand is a lie.

  • Trump posts all-caps plea to China in early morning hours

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  • He was a disgrace in 2016, but it seems like he really turned it up a notch for this presidency. Speaks volumes about US citizens for electing this fool again, too.

  • You might want to hose it off when you are done

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  • Something similar, yes.

  • You might want to hose it off when you are done

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  • It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

  • Oh Noes!!

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  • Why do US neonazis hate Catholics tho? There is also this line in American History X, where Danny says: "I hate anyone that isn't white Protestant." I've always wondered.