like what if the first person to coin the phrase, for the one bee that lays around just producing offspring, lived in a world that had no monarchies? or, were radically opposed to the concept.
also what do you think we would name them today if we just found them?
HBIC (Head Bee In Charge)
They are called mother bee in Estonian.
Breeder bee
In Old English it’s “beomodor”, literally “bee mother”
that’s some good shit
One does not simply walk into beomodor.
Does that mean Beowulf means bee wolf in old English?
Yes, or perhaps less literally “bee hunter”, it was used as euphemism for a bear. There’s some theories that saying the actual word for bear was taboo (some theories say that people believed saying it’s name could attract one), so they used euphemisms like that, or “the brown one”, bero, which is where the English word “bear” comes from.
Hive core?
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Bee Producer Bee
Matriarch
Big Beeyotch
I vote for Beeznatch
Your Beeness
🅱️nis
Mother bee, since it’s the only one laying eggs.
Interesting bee fact -
In a hive that has been queenless for a period of time (long enough that there’s no way they can raise a replacement queen), one or more workers may develop the ability to lay unfertilized eggs.
Due to how honeybee genetics work, those unfertilized eggs can hatch into drones (males), which may then have the opportunity to mate with queens from nearby colonies.
I guess this is sort of a last ditch effort to propagate the hive’s genetic material before it fizzles out and dies. Which I think is fascinating.
Mommy bee
Head bee.
Boss Bitch
Boss Bee-atch
I’d name it “Root bee”.
Quorum bee