Male bees are spunking themselves to death due to the heat

[ReedeFox]

If you thought you were having a tough time in this heatwave, spare a thought to the male bees out there who are so freaking hot that they are actually ejaculating themselves to death. What a way to go.

 

Here’s what Dr. Alison McAfee at the University of British Columbia’s Michael Smith Laboratories had ti say about it: 
 

When drones die from shock, they spontaneously ejaculate. They have this elaborate endophallus that comes out and is about the size of their own abdomen. It’s pretty extreme. We know that after six hours at 107 F degrees, half of drones will die of heat stress. The more sensitive ones start to perish at two, or three hours. That’s a temperature they shouldn’t normally experience, but we were seeing drones getting stressed to the point of death.

 
Poor fuckers. It also means that certain crops won’t get pollinated which is a worry. No doubt this will drive the prices of produce up even further. Fucks sake!

[Hilary Briss]

Same.