Giant Bees: The Developing Bee Throughout The Life Span
Everything you could want to know about the social, biological, and psychological development of the Giant Bees. Delve deep into the social norms and customs of Giant Bee culture, learn what to and what not to say when interacting with them, and take a brief glimpse into their history and hierarchy. Recommended for anyone who does not wish to get on the bad side of a Giant Bee.
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The Life-Span Perspective
Chapter 3
The development of the Giant Bee is multidirectional, multicontextual, multidisciplinary, and it is plastic, much like our own development.
Change is apparent in every aspect of the Giant Bee’s life, and in every direction. Over the life span, bee characteristics change in multiple ways: increasing, decreasing, or holding steady in whatever path they are on. At times a discontinuity will be evident as rapid shifts occurs, as happens when the bee goes from egg to larvae to pupa and finally to adult. At times a continuity can be found, between the larvae and pupa stages, where up to 500 lbs may be gained each year. Some things, however, do not change: each bee is born and dies with about 8,000,000 genes, present in their cells lifelong. It is because of this that so many directions are possible, and that so many specifics may vary.
The second insight from the life-span perspective is that the development of Giant Bees is multicontextual, and occurs in many different contexts, including their physical surroundings, such as climate, noise, population density, etc., and place in hive hierarchy, whether they be a queen bee, a worker bee, or a drone.
When the term culture is used by social scientists, it is being used to refer to a meaning and information system, shared by a group and transmitted across generations, that allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, pursue happiness and well-being, and derive meaning from life. Giant Bees in hives all over the world have their own culture, and in that they have their own methods of gathering pollen and ascribing meaning, or value, to life. Action is affected by culture.
The term plasticity denotes two different aspects of development, yet they are complimentary to one another. Giant Bee traits can be molded, to an extent, yet Giant Bees will go on to maintain to certain durability of identity regardless. Regal Jelly may take a babe worker and turn her into a queen, yet their roots and drives remain similar.
To study the development of the Giant Bee, we must take a close look from before their queen has even laid the eggs, all the way to the end of their life, for there are many factors that affect their development all throughout the life-span.
