Choose to start with male or female. Males (blue) have 1 parent. Females (pink) have 2. Starting with either results in Fibonacci sequence, but male start with one 1 parent, 2 grandparents, 3 great-grandparents GG, 5 GGG (great-great-grandparents), 8, 13, 21 and so on. Females start with 2 parents, then 3 grandparents, 5 GG, 8 GGG and so on. Adjust angle, shrink factor, and generations of this fractal family tree.
Male drones come from unfertilized egg, so have 1 parent (a mother). Females have 2 parents. Results in a Fibonacci family tree: male has 1 parent, 2 grandparents, then 3 great grandparents, then 5, 8, 13, 21 ... (that's the Fibonacci sequence). If you start with female, then you get the same Fibonacci sequence but it starts with 2 parents and ends with 34 GGGGGG (34 GGGGG Grandparents). I modified my recent Fibonacci fractal tree to work for honeybee parentage, stamping the male and female costume before branching. Added "wait" after each level for easy viewing of each generation. My try at hash tag: #coding #fibonacci #bees (do those hash tags exist?)
