Chapter 55 - Chapter 55: Chapter 50 Capturing the Queen Bee t (2/2)

Learning to distinguish the types of honeybees now was necessary.

At this moment, a black drone bee tumbled down from the sky.

After falling to the ground, it didn’t die immediately.

Qin Niu ran over to check and found that its tail seemed “prolapsed.”

Its intestines were exposed.

The male bee is a very interesting bee species in the bee colony; it’s the standard pretty boy, a pampered pet, a king of living off others.

First of all, both the queen bee and worker bees have stingers, which can hurt people.

However, when a worker bee’s stinger pierces the enemy’s skin, it can’t be pulled out because of the barbs on it. Eventually, the venom sac connected to the tip of the abdomen is also torn off and left in the enemy’s body.

This is the result of their millions of years of evolution.

This kind of attack, killing 800 enemies at the cost of 1,000 to themselves, is meant to deter anyone from messing with the bee nest.

The honey in the bee nest can attract many animals to prey on it.

Such as bears, humans, ants, and so on.

The weak bees, in order to drive away these powerful enemies, had to evolve spikes and venom sacs.

After stinging the enemy, to ensure that all the venom is injected into the enemy’s skin for maximum lethality, the bee will harm itself in this way. After a worker bee stings a person, it won’t survive either and will die soon.

The male bee is much larger than the worker bee; it is born a foodie and consumes more than three times the amount of a worker bee from its youth.

That is to say, the food consumed to raise one male bee is enough to raise three worker bees.

And the male bee never works; it doesn’t have the organs to collect pollen and naturally cannot gather pollen and honey.

The male bee also has no stinger and no capacity to attack.

It has a large body, a big appetite, does no work, and also has a long lifespan, about twice as long as that of worker bees.

If it is the blooming season, especially in the summer, the lifespan of worker bees is often only around sixty days or even shorter.

Because they work hard every day to collect pollen to “feed the family.” They have to provide for the queen bee, the young bees, and the male bees. They are really too hardworking.

In the end, they die prematurely due to overwork.

Because male bees are lazy and gluttonous, they naturally live longer.

Their sole purpose is to mate with the new queen bee.

So it’s fair to say that male bees are the epitome of living off others. They have a very comfortable life.

However, since male bees have no stinger, they are not as combat-capable as worker bees. When a hive has an excess of male bees, the worker bees will drive them out.

They are kicked out of the home.

As you can imagine, after being driven out, they can only starve to death.

In addition, worker bees can limit the number of male bees. If there are enough male bees in the hive, the worker bees will stop feeding the young male bees, letting them stop developing or even starve to death.

Qin Niu picked up the male bee and examined it closely.

It’s really big, the size of two worker bees.

Its six legs are strong and powerful, and its wings are extremely robust. At this moment, it is at death’s door, without even the strength to struggle.

After mating with the new queen bee, it ended up in this ghostly state.

Its strength was exhausted, and the essence stored in its body was all given to the new queen bee; it was waiting for death to come.

“It seems the information I got from that newbie worker bee yesterday is accurate; after mating, the new queen bee will soon lead a part of the worker bees out of the nest to establish a new kingdom.”

Qin Niu subconsciously touched the wooden box in his bosom containing two low-grade Contract Charms.

I need to make a move quickly, or once it flies out of the hive, it’ll all be over.

But with such a huge bee nest, where could the new queen bee be?

He immediately flipped to the third page of the Green Demon Bee manual and read through the content carefully again.

The royal platform is a temporary nest chamber constructed by the bee colony to raise a new queen bee, often liking to build it on the lower edge or sides of the comb.

Occasionally, in special circumstances, it would be built in the center of the comb.

Isn’t that the same as saying nothing?

It means that the royal platform could be built anywhere in the bee nest.

When the worker bees construct the royal platform, they first build a circular cup-shaped base with the opening facing downward. Only when the queen bee lays fertilized eggs inside the base and starts raising a new queen is it the real royal platform.

Some royal platforms are pseudo royal platforms because they have not yet been used, or have been put aside…

The beekeeping manual that cost ten Silver Money has been somewhat useful.

After repeated study, Qin Niu applied his knowledge, starting to look for the existence of a royal platform on the bee nest.

Because of the distance, it was not very clear.

He put on his makeshift armor made from old account books and then approached the pine tree for a closer look.

This time he made a discovery.

At the bottom of the comb, he saw two royal platforms.

One of which was surrounded by numerous black male bees, all waiting to mate with the new queen bee.

The other was much quieter.

Only a few worker bees were moving around, which meant the new queen bee inside that royal platform was probably still in the larval stage.

“That’s it! The new queen bee must be inside.”

Qin Niu was already contemplating how to capture the new queen bee.

He needed to catch her without causing any harm.

The difficulty was extremely high..