--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Ground control to Major Tam..." Because as a
> worker I am not a "Tom".
>
> So let's first be clear about Queen Chris's problem.
>
> A drone bee and a worker bee are different. A drone
> bee among honeybees
> develops from unfertilized eggs and a worker bee
> from fertilized eggs.
> Drone bees are males and worker bees are female.
> Drone bees exist to
> service the Queen and Worker bees exist to service
> feed the drones among
> many other functions, like keeping the hive cool and
> moving eggs around and
> cleaning up the garbage, guarding the entrance of
> the hive, etc.
>
> Workers have a life cycle where the kind of tasks
> they perform are at first
> inside the nest (like moving eggs into cells) and
> then later both inside and
> outside the nest (like taking out the garbage) and
> later inside, but close
> to the nest, (guarding the entrance) and later
> foraging. What percentage of
> workers takes up each task seems to depend on the
> life cycle of the hive and
> the "dependence" of the hive upon each task. It
> seems that once a worker
> starts performing tasks outside the hive it never
> reverts to performing
> tasks inside the hive. Thus a forager never reverts
> to becoming an egg
> mover.
>
> Now, I hear Queen Chris calling me, and as a
> foraging worker bee I have
> discovered that I am unable to make it back to the
> nest where Queen Chris is
> waiting for me and other old foragers. The drones
> want to be fed. The
> drones need to be fed. The hive needs its sweet
> stuff. Where's my Royal
> Jelly, yells Queen Chris, where's my Bee Bread.
> "Something is happening
> here and you just don't know what it is, do you Mr.
> Jones?" Queen Chris
> gets lonelier and lonelier as more and more workers
> become foragers and as
> more and more foragers like me get lost and
> confused... and it is very
> lonely now since all the workers seem to be lost and
> the queen is there with
> no workers and maybe now even all the drones are
> dying, because "we're
> idiots babe, and we can't even feed ourselves"!
>
> As for me, I think it is something wrong with my
> navigation system. What
> exactly it is I don't know. But i really doubt that
> it has something to do
> with cell phones. That's just me, a worker bee with
> a guess.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> --- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > And one more thing. I want to thank Chris for
> not
> > > taking the opportunity to
> > > make fun of me about my obsession with bees and
> ants
> > > and swarming insects.
> > > But the future will tell... Maybe the bug that
> has
> > > crawled into his dark
> > > place is entomologically interesting?
> > >
> > > Jerry
> >
> >
> > Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
> >
> > ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ!
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> is
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> Culture
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>
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>
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