Dort_Owl [they/them, any]

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Cake day: June 25th, 2025

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  • You have activated my bug obsession, sorry:

    Ant’s and bees rule. You might think “But wait they have a Queen so they’d be shitty” but that’s all just human projection, the queen isn’t any kind of ruler and is completely beholden to the workers.

    The interesting thing about social Hymenoptera species is that the jobs they do are completely based on age. The youngest ones clean things and keep warm, then after a couple of days the job changes to feeding larvae, then after that they build things, then after that they do guard duty, and then the oldest go out of the hive and collect food (because it’s the most dangerous job so the oldest do it).

    That’s the complete opposite to what we have been doing where the youngest get the most dangerous work.