How a Bee Becomes Queen

Royal jelly! For bees, it’s what makes all the difference between a queen and a worker. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Justin Lentz, David Campos, John Szymakowski, Peso255, Jeremy Peng, Avi Yaschin, and Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2011/acs-presspac-september-21-2011/queen-bee-or-worker-bee-new-insights-into-famous-honeybee-society-caste-system.html http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr200473a http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr200473a?tokenDomain=presspac&tokenAccess=presspac&forwardService=showFullText&journalCode=jprobs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/26/what-makes-a-queen-bee-one-special-protein-apparently/#.VXevolzBzGc http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059907/ http://westernfarmpress.com/management/queen-bees-need-more-royal-jelly http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/04/honey_bees.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/democracy_in_honeybees_and_other_animals_what_humans_can_learn_from_social.single.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7348/full/nature10093.html http://usabtm.weburl.ro/utilizatori/ZOOTEHNIE/file/REVISTA%202011/vol%2044/2/BIOCHIM/Barnutiu.pdf https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/

Comments

1. It Beecomes a queen
2. What would happen if I ate some of this royal jelly?
3. According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. It's tiny little wings can't get it's fat little body off the ground.
   The bee however, flies anyway.
4. gotta say bee's lives sound like game of thrones.
5. I watched your videos before and they poked my intrest, I made sure to click the subscribe button after this one, Your a Great channel :)
6. so...If she stopped eating royal jelly, while she was fully grown, would she de-queen n turn into a simpleton?
7. 'ROYALACTN' SciShow Y U LIE TO ME?!
8. So what if there are 10 queen bees in the hive???????
9. What if a male bee eats royal jelly?
10. vitamin butt
11. Vitamin BEE
12. Subed
13. She dreams it, she works hard, she grinds 'till she own it.
14. after all we are not bee's XD
15. It contains vitamin bee
16. slow down man you gonna swallow your tongue. good new info about bees though .thank you
17. My dads inside an ant nuptial flight. I'm praying that he gets queens. Please wish me luck...
18. so they royal jelly up a larva and bam a queen is born. ok
19. Aww man I wish they had a gladiator war to see who becomes queen
20. What about parliament though?