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what would a queen bee be called if queens never existed? (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bees don’t have a social hierarchy the way humans do. They aren’t queens or slaves, they are just different roles in the colony that contribute to survival and reproduction in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

that's why it's all about the human perspective. the first person to give it a name lived in a world of kings and queens, but if they'd lived in a world with no kings and queens but the world that had slaves, they might have called it the slave bee. there are infinite iterations, hence my question