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Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Just pulled this frame from a hive and you can see here we've got lots of worker brood which is great. That all turned into worker bees. Across here we've got the uncapped worker brood. So down the cells if you get focus we can see there is grubs down there which is pretty cool. So they're in their larae stage before they're cocooned like the ones over here. And then over here oh look at that. We've got a couple of boily bees just chewing their way out of their cocoon. So, they're the drones.

[00:00:35]They're going to emerge into the hive and strut their stuff and fly off to a drone congregation area where the job is to spread their DNA.

[00:00:45]So, they'll hopefully get to mate with a queen one day.

[00:00:50]Here we go. Pulling itself right out of the cell. Pulling it out. Here we go.

[00:00:57]It's going to take its first steps on the honeycomb surface. And the one above it is just trying to chew its way out. Wow, look at that. So, you can tell it's a drone because its eyes are bigger and they touch together in the center, unlike the worker bees. And they're kind of big teddy bear shaped.