Non-honey bees

The field season doesn’t leave me much time to draw but I didn’t want to skip a Monday cartoon, so a quick drawing about bees’ violent mating practices. When you look at males trying to mate with a female, you can often see she is not happy and trying to throw him off her back. In human standards it looks like absolutely unacceptable behaviour… but think about ducks where males are even more aggressive in forcing copulation. A female can be injured or drowned in the process!

Remember not to apply ethical norms of humans to animals, or vice versa 🙂