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  • 2016-08-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Are Bees Born Fully Grown? (en)
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  • Are bees born fully grown? This question has plagued Snapple drinkers since at least 2009, when real fact #775 was issued on the drink's bottle caps: Renewed buzz about this fact was heard in May 2016 when a Snapple aired a television commercial based on this permise: https://vimeo.com/162858901 However, this fact about bees being born fully grown is misleading. A bee goes through complete metamorphosis, transforming from an egg to a larva, to a pupa, and finally to a full-grown adult. This life cycle is not unique to bees: Many insects, including beetles, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths and flies undergo holometabolism, or complete metamorphism. In May 2015, biologist and photographer Anand Varma captured a time-lapse video showing the first 21 days of a bee's life: The phrasing of the Snapple real fact and the above-displayed commercial led some viewers to believe that bees give live birth to fully grown adults. But this is not the case: Bees come from eggs and hatch as larvae, and while the majority of a bee's growth occurs before it emerges from the pupa stage as an adult, that emergence is not commonly known as the birth of a bee. (en)
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