Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen | Kenny Coogan
TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
TED
4.4 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ ? minutes
Summary
As the sun rises, something royal stirs inside a pile of firewood. It's the wasp queen; one of thousands who mated in late autumn and hibernated through the winter. Now she must emerge into the spring air to begin her reign. This queen is the lone survivor of her old hive, and now, she must become the foundress of a new one. Kenny Coogan details a year in the life of a wasp queen. [Directed Biljana Labovic, animated by Denis Chapon, narrated by Addison Anderson, music Stephen LaRosa].
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