A real worker bee

bluzman

bluzman

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I was out looking at the large white blossoms on a magnolia tree in front of my house when I saw this little fellow. He was busily gather bee pollen to feed his compadres back at the hive.

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Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

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bluzman said:
I was out looking at the large white blossoms on a magnolia tree in front of my house when I saw this little fellow. He [sic] was busily gather bee pollen to feed his [sic] compadres back at the hive.
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Worker bees are female. The only male bees are drones, which exist only for reproductive purposes. The stinger is actually an adapted form of an ovipositor, a distinctly female organ in insects which in its more common form among other sorts of insects, is used to lay eggs.
 
bluzman

bluzman

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Bob Blaylock said:
Worker bees are female. The only male bees are drones, which exist only for reproductive purposes. The stinger is actually an adapted form of an ovipositor, a distinctly female organ in insects which in its more common form among other sorts of insects, is used to lay eggs.
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OMG, will I now be "cancelled" for using the incorrect pronouns?? :bee:
 
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