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Kings and queens thought they could be those guardians, but during various revolutions, they tended to lose their heads.
They all live in colonies consisting of one or a few queens, and then all the ants you see walking around are sterile female workers.
Often the queens mate more than once.
And then the newly mated queens fly off somewhere, drop their wings, dig a hole and go into that hole and start laying eggs.
That is, to send more winged queens and males to that year's mating flight.
MT: Well, as a matter of fact, it was on my sixth birthday that I received my first deck of cards, and ever since that day, I have traveled around the world performing magic for boys and girls, men and women, husbands and wives, even kings and queens.
After traveling so much and meeting so many people, let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens and every other polarization you can possibly think of within the LGBT community as there are within the human race.
Even though they're called queens, they don't tell anybody what to do.
He told me that one night in 1969, a group of young black and Latino drag queens fought back against the police at a gay bar in Manhattan called the Stonewall Inn, and how this sparked the modern gay rights movement.
But nowadays, the millions of queen bees distributed in commercial hives are bred from just a few original queens, which raises the worry about a lack of genetic diversity which could weaken bees' defenses against pathogens and pests.
In many species, all the winged males and winged virgin queens from all the nearby colonies in the population each leave from their different nests and meet at a central place to mate, using pheromones to guide each other to a breeding ground.
We need more of the courage of drag queens and astronauts.
I start with three queens.
Others were the so-called "street queens," who were often targeted by police for their gender expression and found themselves on the forefront of seminal events in the LGBT rights movement.
And in fact, America was the first country that ever did mail-delivery queens and in fact, it's part of the postal code that you have to deliver queens by mail in order to make sure that we have enough bees in this country.
In the surrounding area, dozens of neighboring queens are building their own ant armies.
She fends off other losing queens and the defending nest’s workers, fighting her way to the top of the brood pile.
Her daughters help their mother succeed where other queens fail— defeating the reigning monarch, and usurping the brood pile.
While hibernating in compost piles and underground burrows, many sleeping queens were eaten by spiders.
Warm winters caused by climate change led other queens to emerge early, only to find there was no available food.
And some queens that survived the winter fell victim to the threats of spring, such as carnivorous plants, birds, and manmade pesticides.
She begins grooming some eggs into a new generation of queens, while also laying unfertilized eggs that will mature into reproductive males called drones.
This new crop of queens and males requires more food.
Just when it seems the hive can no longer sustain itself, the fertile queens and their drones depart in a massive swarm.
The males die off shortly after, but the newly fertilized queens are ready to find shelter for their long sleep.
This is the most important slide that I've ever seen in public health, [Sovereigns killed by smallpox] because it shows you to be the richest and the strongest, and to be kings and queens of the world, did not protect you from dying of smallpox.
So the challenges of education in this kind of place are not to learn the kings and queens of Kenya or Britain.
Ants are a classic example; workers work for queens and queens work for workers.
And what they showed me is that, well, firstly, it's at least to say odd that we don't treat these pigs as absolute kings and queens.
The men interviewed here are the same "A-list" queens who thought they were better than anyone else during the 70s, and here they are again, waxing nostalgic and still throwing attitude.
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