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@CreativeG - May 18, 2024

Ahh this is great to see, thanks a lot!!

You are making wonderfull videos and finally I can understand the English because it’s not so extreme fast spoken 🤣

I have some questions but first I want to ask. I send you a tip for this video. I don’t get a reply if that it’s worked by zirkels. I saw in my view that there is a lot of pending tips but they never received to my wallet. So that’s why my question to you…..Did you see my tip?

> So there is a difference between queen cells and normal ones, but why are queen cells speciall made…. Is it for the Hierarchy?
> And what is the biggest difference in such a cell, why do they bring the belly in…to feed her?
> What was the last thing you sprayed before putting the lid on?

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@BeeSmart - May 23, 2024
Yes - I try to use understandable English - there are certainly mistakes, but what the heck. Speaking is not the problem - rather the vocabulary for beekeeping terminology. Yes - DeSo is having a few problems at the moment - I'm not getting any messages, so I missed your email at first. Queen cells are special cells, they are larger and usually hang on the edge of the frames if you let the bees build freely. The size is related to this. The queen herself is larger - she needs more space. The bees hang their heads and abdomens in all cells, either cleaning the cell after a bee has hatched or feeding the bees. Normal worker bees are fed with a mixture of honey, pollen and a little royal jelly. For queens, only royal jelly - this allows the female sexual characteristics to develop fully, unlike the worker bee. At the end I use smoke (egg cartons that I burn). The smoke triggers an escape reflex in the bees. They prepare to flee when the fire comes. But they can still take something with them. They have a honey bladder in which they can collect honey. So they go onto the honeycomb and suck out the honey - and to us it always looks as if they are sitting there calmly and clearing the way, for example, to simply put the lid on.
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@CreativeG - May 23, 2024
How special it is how nature controls all this!When I see you with the bees I always get goosebumps from that swarm, I am not such a hero with buzzing insects haha.But very fascinating to see.Really nice I hear looking forward to your next movie! Next question, why is there actually always a queen in the inner world and never a king? And does she already know at birth that she is a queen?🧐 It should be stupid questions maybe but I really have no idea 🙈🙈
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@BeeSmart - May 24, 2024
Okay, I'll start with the simple question: "does she already know at birth that she is a queen?" Yes absolutely - every bee, including the queen, hatches as a finished, fully functional being. As the queen has been fed exclusively with royal jelly and for the rest of her life, the female sexual characteristics have fully developed. From hatching, the queen leads the colony with her queen pheromone. However, I realise that a new queen needs some time to get used to the routine. This can be seen from the fact that egg laying is not 100% consistent at the beginning. 2nd question: "why is there actually always a queen in the inner world and never a king?" This is more of a philosophical question. I think nature (biology or rather life) favours the female because the female usually creates life. The male is necessary for reproduction, but let's be honest, who gets the brood, raises them, feeds them. A king is more a question of power than a question of love. It is interesting to note, however, that people in the Middle Ages thought that only a king could rule such a bee colony - which is why the queen bee is also called Weisel = the wise one, the leader. Until people realised in the 18th century - oops, the king lays eggs - there's something wrong with our theory ;-) By the way - when the queen lays an egg, she decides whether to fertilise it. If it is fertilised, it becomes female, i.e. worker or queen. If it is not fertilised - I repeat - if it is not fertilised - it becomes a drone, i.e. male. So a drone genetically has no father, only a grandfather and is genetically a clone of the queen - but it is male. Are you still with us?🥳
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@CreativeG - May 24, 2024
Well, the men accept it better than in the people world.Would be something if they also become non -binary haha. As for the males without a father but with grandfather, I had to read them a few times but I understand now! Its really interesting, thanks for your answers and have a nice weekend!
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