Reasons for the short life of the male queen bee after mating
Bees are very common small insects. They are very social. The queen bee is the leader of a bee colony. It is mainly responsible for laying eggs. Drones and queen bees mate. Our common bees are the worker bees in the colony, usually only beekeeping. The talented people know what a queen bee and a drone are. They are responsible for the reproduction task of a colony, but the sad reminder for the drone is that it mates with the queen bee (a female bee, to be precise, a virgin queen, or a virgin queen). Will die soon, usually within two hours.
For the reproduction of the group, the price of life is paid for one mating with the queen bee. This drone is also really great. But the drone will definitely protest against such a statement. Its heart should be: I don't want to die!
It turns out that the cause of the death of the drone after mating is not on it, but on the female (virgin queen). It is its cruel mating behavior that determines the life and death of the drone. Every queen bee is a "dominant female lord", whether it is a drone that mates with it or a worker bee that works hard, she has the power to live and kill in the bee colony established after it.
The virgin queen bee was born in a bee colony. When it becomes sexually mature, it will fly out of the hive and open its tail to release sex pheromones. The drones patrolling and waiting for mating will find the virgin after being signaled by sex pheromones. When the queen bee mates with it, the drone will land on the back of the virgin queen bee. At this time, the virgin queen bee's tail will open, and the drone will penetrate the genital organs into it, and inject sperm and sperm into the abdomen of the virgin queen bee.
The two fly while mating. After the mating activity is completed, the virgin queen bee will close the tail tightly in order to prevent the sperm from flowing out of the tail. As a result, the genital organs of the drone cannot be extracted.
At this time, the virgin queen bee will fly indiscriminately, constantly turning and rushing, the purpose is to get rid of the drone on the back, which will cause the drone and the virgin queen to fly in different directions, and the body only depends on the genitals, organs, officials and virgins on the tail. The queen bee is connected. After tossing for a few times, the genitals, organs and officials of the drone will be pulled out of the body, and most of them will also carry some internal organs of the drone, which is often seen by beekeepers in flight. A white line is actually some internal organs of the drone, and it is used to judge whether the new queen bee has reached the stage of breeding.
And the drones whose internal organs have been pulled out, their basic physiological functions have been destroyed, and of course they cannot survive for a long time. I didn't expect the mating behavior of bees to be so cruel, right? After mating, the drones will definitely cry: Queen Bee, you are too cruel, and you have been ruthlessly calculated.
After that, the virgin queen bee will store the sperm of the drone in the body and keep it for life, but a drone cannot meet the copulation needs of the virgin queen. It will continue to fly and release sex hormones to lure other drones to mate with it, and the drone will take it out when it arrives. The genitals, organs, and officials cut off by the previous drone mate with the virgin queen bee, and then the virgin queen bee will perform the same actions, causing this drone to die shortly after mating, and then it will continue to lure the next one. Only, repeat this kind of copulation...
Therefore, this mating method of bees is very cruel. Although the virgin queen bee has only one or several mating behaviors in her life, a mating mating will consume the lives of 20 drones on average, and it will last one or several days. Over time, sex hormones are used to lure about 20 drones to mate with them and store their sperm.
When the mating behavior is over, the virgin queen bee will fly back to the nest and begin to lay eggs after 2 to 3 days, becoming the new queen bee in the colony. The old queen bee may stay in the nest, or it may happen naturally and lead some worker bees to build another. nest.
