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xmunk ,

“Matron” it’s a term you can use and is the head lady of a family, usually implying wisdom and a lot of influence.

Nobody ,

HBIC (Head Bee In Charge)

FluffyPotato ,

They are called mother bee in Estonian.

DenizEfe ,
@DenizEfe@lemm.ee avatar

Breeder bee

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

In Old English it’s “beomodor”, literally “bee mother”

pelletbucket OP ,

that’s some good shit

MeetInPotatoes ,

One does not simply walk into beomodor.

RedditRefugee69 ,

Does that mean Beowulf means bee wolf in old English?

RobotToaster ,
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Yes, or perhaps less literally “bee hunter”, it was used as euphemism for a bear. There’s some theories that saying the actual word for bear was taboo (some theories say that people believed saying it’s name could attract one), so they used euphemisms like that, or “the brown one”, bero, which is where the English word “bear” comes from.

RedditRefugee69 ,

Now that just makes me curious as hell about the original work for bear. Maybe something more similar to the Latin “ursa”?

velox_vulnus ,

Hive core?

Mesa ,
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Related: youtu.be/WiACxOjyRT0?feature=shared

southsamurai ,
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Whatever the equivalent word would be. Leader, chief, boss, it doesn’t really matter.

As long as the concept of a single leader existed, it would have been applied to something like bees. Wouldn’t need monarchies to recognize a central focus of an insect group, and pick the closest word for that.

You could maybe argue that there might be some alien species that had no concept of ever needing a decision maker, and they would have to coin a new word for the main reproductive entity of a hive. Something like mother might be used, if the aliens had that concept at all. Perhaps “generator” would be a close enough equivalent that the imaginary aliens would be almost certain to have a similar enough concept.

But humans had a concept of needing someone to make decisions about things way back. So I don’t think it’s a realistic enough idea to say that in the absence of monarchy that we wouldn’t have some kind of term for a person in charge.

BugleFingers ,

Prime, Alpha, Leader, Lead, Breeder, Spawner, Source, Central, Keystone.

Those prefixes used upon the suffix of: Bee. All seem like potential options

Skua ,

I feel like this is something other languages must have answers for, but I'm not finding any articles or discussions about it. Like in German it's "Bienenkönigin", which is literally the words for bee and queen, but surely that's not the case for every language. The only other thing I can think of is just checking random languages one by one and that's not something I want to do on mobile.

Anyway I'd call them julia beesars

pelletbucket OP ,

I tried googling “queen bee in Arabic” but I can’t tell if it’s giving me the Arabic term for queen bee or if it’s just translating the words lol

Skua ,

I find a good way to find the common name for something in another language is to go to its wikipedia page and see what the equivalent page in the other language is called. So in Arabic it's "ملكة النحل". The ملكة part does indeed mean queen

pelletbucket OP ,

now I’m sitting here thinking about it, from one perspective, you could consider that particular bee to be a slave to the rest of the bees

LibertyLizard ,

Bees don’t have a social hierarchy the way humans do. They aren’t queens or slaves, they are just different roles in the colony that contribute to survival and reproduction in different ways.

pelletbucket OP ,

that’s why it’s all about the human perspective. the first person to give it a name lived in a world of kings and queens, but if they’d lived in a world with no kings and queens but the world that had slaves, they might have called it the slave bee. there are infinite iterations, hence my question

pelletbucket OP ,

seed bee

madmaurice ,
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Matriarch

Zombiepirate ,
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

Your Beeness

otacon239 ,

🅱️nis

LOLjoeWTF ,

Bee Producer Bee

voracitude ,

Boss Bitch

bionicjoey ,

Boss Bee-atch

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