Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers
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skyberrys
3 hours ago
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The chemicals in their nearby environment are what make the embryos develop into Queen bees. It makes one wonder what sort of nearby chemical environments do to human embryo development.
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dcrazy
3 hours ago
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Since human fetuses are usually encapsulated within the womb of an adult woman, they’re far more insulated from arbitrary chemical environments than bee larvae. But of course we know of many cases where chemicals make it through the mother’s body and into the fetus’s immediate environment, affecting its development: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fetal-alcohol...
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Terr_
5 minutes ago
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skyberrys
1 hour ago
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I guess having just read about the positive impact the bees have to develop into Queen bees I was wondering if there are positive chemicals a human female could produce to give better than average outcomes.
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dimes
13 minutes ago
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Folic acid
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slicktux
2 hours ago
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I’ve always wondered what or how queen bees were made. It’s almost as they were a different insect.
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ceejayoz
43 minutes ago
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For a really wild ride, read about naked mole rats. The only mammals that have a similar queen setup.

They are deeply weird in many ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat

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dlev_pika
2 hours ago
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Fascinating. Sharing with a beekeeper friend, thank you
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