Honey Bees are fucking amazing. How the FUCK do they do all the things they do?

I didn't even realise the Queen gets gangbanged for like three days not long after she hatches, then stores 6 million sperms from that gangbang which she will use for the rest of her life. She lays 1500 eggs a day, most of which she CHOOSES to fertilise from her sperm sack and makes female worker bees. If she doesn't add a sperm it produces a male Drone who only has one fucking parent (what the fuck) and his only life aim is to be in one of these mid-air gangbangs with another nubile queen.

The worker bees live for about two months max and move around the "jobs" in the hive through their short life, first cleaning our their birth cell and then attending to the Queen and then becoming a guard before finally leaving the hive and foraging.

It's not just that though. It's how they're doing all this as a hive. It's almost like the hive itself is the consciousness. It's alien.

Bees are cool hivemind.
Ants are invasive hivemind.

>>4999465 (OP)
>It's almost like the hive itself is the consciousness. It's alien.
towards the end of last year I had like a manic episode or something and I was obsessed with animal hiveminds and that a human animal hivemind would basically create god or something. it sounded more profound to me back then

Apis mellifera (more like apis MALITIOSUS) suck, they make life hard for all the other, much cooler insects

And if any drones stay in and try to be an incel, the hive eventually turns on them and murders them in a frenzy of stinging [stinging another bee doesn't kill a worker bee] and biting by fall. Also when a virgin queen comes back to a hive after taking many drones, their penises are stuck in her and her workers will take them gently out and devour them as delicacies.

>>4999467
>hivemind
No such thing.
The gyne is selfish, and actively destroys eggs laid by the workers.
The workers are also selfish, and will murder a gyne that doesn't lay enough eggs.
Drones that have outlived their usefulness are also murdered.
Decent foraging locations and nest sites are communicated through movement, and the decision to move is made democratically. Once there are no more dissenting bees, the colony moves.
Neither Apis mellifera, nor any of the numerous other eusocial species in the world, forms 'hiveminds'. They form social organisations with disposable soldiers for the purpose of war. Every single instance of eusociality initially occurred for the purpose of defending a nesting site against outside aggression.
It begins with the gyne using hormonal or nutritional suppression to create pliant workers, essentially parasiting parts of her own offspring so other parts have a better shot at survival. Dominance interactions may also be at play (e.g. Polistes wasps). As the gyne ages and hormonal suppression of reproduction ceases, the gyne usually gets killed by the workers.
But as time passes, the balance of power shifts, and it's suddenly the workers that dictate the actions of the gyne and if need be, dispose of her.
All of this occurs not through a magical hivemind, but through the brute force of, somewhat ironically, naked self-interest. The self-interest of the gyne to use some of her offspring to give the rest a headstart. The self-interest of the workers to produce more workers, to keep the colony alive.
Bees aren't a hivemind. They're the insect equivalent of the classical Athenian democracy, the people always ready to condemn their leaders in case of failure, always ready to throw the useless under the bus, and always ready to take up arms in defence of their hometown.