Busy as a bee!
Fun Facts About Honeybees!
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There is only one female that produces
eggs in the colony and she is called the queeen.
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Other females are worker bees and produce
no eggs.
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The drone bees are male bees that don't
work
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Male bees are produced by the queens
unfertilized eggs (so males have no father).
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All females are produced when the queen
mates with a male (so they have two parents).
Now lets look at the family tree
of a male honeybee . . .

Surprise!
It's the Fibonacci sequence!
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