Chapter Ninety-Six: The Bee Says

The stormy effects of the hornet incident gradually fell silent in the flow of time.

So Li Yuhao found a time in the morning and quietly came to the cave hiding place of the white jade giant bee.

I haven't been here for many days, and the hiding place of the white jade giant bee surprised Li Yuhao.

The last time I left, in the cave where the white jade giant bee was, although the bees were building a nest, Li Yuhao could still see the giant bee with broken wings through the wide gap.

But this time, the entrance to the cave has been completely covered by beehives, and countless bees crawl on it, coming in and out.

Li Yuhao stood in front of the cave, and a fragrant hundred flowers of nectar came to the surface, which made Li Yuhao can't help but sigh with a sweet feeling.

If it weren't for the bond of the soul, Li Yuhao wouldn't have seen that there was a giant bee hiding behind this huge honeycomb, enjoying the offerings of the hive bees.

Outside the cave, there is a wasp nest in the shape of an oval spherical clay at intervals, and hornets are constantly flying in and out.

Li Yuhao counted it, and there were thirteen hornet's nests faintly surrounding this cave, and they were like loyal personal guards, protecting the safety of their king, the white jade giant bee!

And Li Yuhao also noticed that there are some hornets patrolling outside, and once they find an enemy, this group of hornets will preemptively drive the enemy away in the direction of others.

This is the patrol guard of the White Jade Giant Bee!" Li Yuhao thought with his head headed.

Under the control of the white jade giant bee, the wasp and the bee perform their own duties, the wasp is responsible for safety, and the bee is responsible for food, and they jointly protect it.

Through the soul connection of the white jade giant bee, Li Yuhao also learned something deeper.

In the huge hive of the cave, the white jade giant bee is the supreme lord of the hive, surpassing the status of the queen bee in the traditional hive. This huge hive is made up of many small hives, which are connected layer by layer.

Every small hive has the presence of a queen bee.

In the beginning, there weren't so many queens. After all, in the traditional beehive, the king does not see the king, and the queen does not see the queen! If there is a new queen, then the old queen bee will take a group of her horses to leave and build the nest again, or the old queen will bite the new queen, or the new queen will bite the old queen, anyway, there can only be one queen bee in a hive.

The white jade giant bee initially controlled a beehive near Cockscomb Mountain, and there was only one queen bee in it.

We know that the difference between worker bees and queen bees is the length of time they are fed royal jelly.

Most female bees can only be fed royal jelly in the first few days in the larval stage, and then switch to general honey, and the lack of energy and hormones leads to the development of these female bees can only develop into worker bees that lack fertility, and undertake the work of collecting honey, feeding, and guarding the hive.

And some lucky female bees, from birth to death, eat royal jelly, because royal jelly is rich in nutrients, so it grows quickly, and can mature in about five days a day and become a new queen.

But newborn queens are not unique.

The worker bees will build a foundation to breed new queens, and the old queen bees will lay eggs in each queen, and the worker bees will divide the labor in batches, each of them will protect the queen closely, and then feed the larvae on the queen bee to let them grow into queen bees. The queen bee who grows first will bite the other queens to death before they are fully developed, thus confirming their dominance in the hive. Of course, if the worker bee colony guarding the king platform is large enough, these worker bees will also block the queen bee from approaching, so that the queen bee of their own king platform is also fully developed. When the two queens meet, it's a life-and-death war, and only the stronger queen bees who survive can rule the entire hive!

It feels like a war to win the crown in ancient human beings, each province has produced various kings through "development", such as the king of Shu, the king of Wu, and the king of Yue, and then the kings of these provinces have fought cruel wars, and the king who survives in the end can reach the top and become the lord of the Ninety-Five, as for those who failed in the battle, most of them were exterminated by quarrels!

In this way, the actions of humans and bees are actually quite the same!

The behavior of these bees is a memory left in the genetic code after thousands of years of nature's survival of the fittest, and in many cases it naturally has its meaning.

But in the eyes of Li Yuhao and the white jade giant bee, who control everything about the bees, this is also a shameful infighting and waste!

So under the control of Li Yuhao through the white jade giant bee, the old queen bee who took the lead in attaching to lay eggs on the royal platform of the old nest, these eggs developed into larvae, and then the worker bees of the entire hive fed royal jelly, this time Li Yuhao did not let them form gangs, did not let them guard the future queen bee in groups, and only left enough "bee hands" to take care of these future "pillars of bees" queen bees, as for the other "bee hands" were controlled by Li Yuhao to build a new "bee palace" for the "bee master".

Royal jelly is fed until they develop into queens, who then fly outside the nest to mate with the male peaks and store sperm.

In the traditional beehive, the queen bee will carry out the marriage flight after birth, and the queen bee at this time is also called the virgin queen. Because the queen bee flies very fast, only the strongest adolescent male peak can catch up with the queen bee and mate with it.

The average sperm count of Chinese honey bees is about 420,000 to 720,000.

After mating, the queen bee will take away Xiongfeng's genitals, and Xiongfeng will die in the pleasure of mating, which is "love when you die".

There is only one queen bee, but there are many male peaks. The male dies after mating, but the male that does not mate returns to the nest. At this time, they can break into any hive and enjoy the rich honey at will, because during the mating period, it is the time when the male peak is "the most valuable", and the male peak at this time has no group membership, and can enter and exit each hive at will without being bitten to death by the guard worker bees, which may be the reason why the male peak does not only mate with the queen bee of the bee colony.

These males spend their mating season happily until autumn arrives and the honey is reduced, when the colony is driven out of the hive and starved to death. Because Xiongfeng does not have the ability to collect honey.

For Li Yuhao, this phenomenon of "fewer women and more men" has caused a lot of waste, and many male bees have to fight singles, and they cannot complete the construction of the socialist bee mouth.

Under the control of Li Yuhao, it will naturally not be like this, because the queen bee has increased, but there is no cannibalism, so Xiongfeng's mating task has become heavier, and many Xiongfeng who would not have had a chance to mate have obtained a mating opportunity under Li Yuhao's "policy".

Traditional honeycomb mating will produce a lot of "idle" male peaks, but not in Li Yuhao's case, they all "bow down and die", most of them die well, creating a queen bee with a larger and longer belly.

Under the care of Li Yuhao and the white jade giant bee, the bee colony began to expand at a rapid speed.