Annuk Bees

Bees are a very common variant of Annuk. They subsist primarily on honey, which they make from sugar a glucose. They are all born from eggs laid by their queen, who can produce them because of her diet of royal jelly.

Anatomy Drones and workers are about 5'6" tall, using their lower four limbs to stand upright. The King bee is about 7 feet tall, also standing upright on four limbs, while the queen is 15 feet long and almost never standing upright.

Castes

Bees have a rigid caste structure with 3 levels: Drone, Worker, and Royalty.

All male bees are drones. Their primary duty is fetilizing and managing the eggs and young, but they also serve as the queen's personal servents. The largest drone is known as the king bee. Every fall, the drones of age leave and gennerally join a caravan of desert merchants, but sometimes they will start settlements with a royal bee.

Workers bees convert fruits and flower nectar into honey to feed everyone. Culturally, they hold themselves responsible for cultivating the earth and making sure nature's cycles work as they should. They make a point of scattering seeds over the fertile land in the city area. They are also known to use pheromones to cause males of other species and races to go into a lull to harvest their semen, most likely to convert to honey, but on rare ocassions they have later used it impregnate females, using the same pheremone to subdue them. This activity is seen as no different from pollination.

Both drones and workers fight in the military, using primarily lances and bows.

At the top is the queen bee. Because of her diet of royal jelly, she can release pheromones that compel anyone nearby to obey her command. The other royal bees compete to become the heiress, generally through assassination. There is usually only one possible heiress remaining at the time of coronation, or the remaining royal bees agree to settle outside the city.