Amazing Time-Lapse: Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes | National Geographic

here is a bee egg as it hatches into a larva those newly hatched larvae swim around their cells feeding on a liquid food that nurse bees secrete for them then their head and their legs start to differentiate as they transform into pupae here's that same pupation process seen from above with varroa mites running around in the cells next the tissue reorganizes in their body and the pigment slowly develops in their eyes in the last step their skin shrivels up and they sprout hair you

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Length: 1min 8sec (68 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/StorminASU]

What are the smaller bugs that appear to be cleaning the larvae up?

[u/tarheels86]

What's that spear looking thing coming out of their face towards the end?

[u/[deleted]]

I always have thought of beehives as fairly sterile places, it's surprising to see mites and other parasites there.