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Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 14:22:58 2021 No.13551507 View Reply Original Report

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Do queen bees/ants really rule the hive? How does governing work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:27:46 No.13551523 Report

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>>13551507
each ant is like 1 neuron in a brain

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:28:37 No.13551527 Report

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>>13551507
they "communicate" through smell. Queen ant takes piss when hungry. The smell propagates through the hive and all other ants know to gather food.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:31:37 No.13551543 Report

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>>13551507
>Do queen bees/ants really rule the hive?
no
>How does governing work?
they don't have a government
nobody gives either of them orders, they know what to do instinctually
they have a pretty sophisticated communication, especially bees

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:32:20 No.13551547 Report

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>>13551507
queen releases a pheromone that subdues the nest

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:32:45 No.13551549 Report

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>>13551507
the queen is more an enslaved breeding machine for the colony more than anything else

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:34:08 No.13551560 Report

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queens are egg laying machines, not the "head of state"

if anything, the workers are the communist government working for the good of the hive

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:38:14 No.13551583 Report

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They are a sort of hive mind. Where they are the government each ant is part of the ruler which is the hive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 14:55:29 No.13551655 Report

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Professional beekeeper/scientist here. The colony actually controls the queen based on a large number of factors. Queen quality, colony size, space available, time of the year, etc.

Haiku

Haiku Mon 23 Aug 2021 15:02:05 No.13551677 Report

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>>13551507
Worker bees can leave the nest
Even drones can fly away
The Queen is their slave

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 15:10:05 No.13551703 Report

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>>13551677
queens leave too when the hive splits
they get a huge entourage, but that's because queen can't do shit by herself, not because she enthralled them to follow

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 15:12:54 No.13551715 Report

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>>13551703
It's a haiku anon, don't overthink it.

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