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The difference is that the worker bees (female) and the queen bee have stingers, while the drones (male) do not. The workers look after the queen, bring up the young, keep the hive clean, defend the hive against intruders and can even lay eggs in certain circumstances. In summer drones can be found in the 'drone congregation area' in the sky where they wait for virgin queens to mate with. A queen will mate with up to 15 drones whereupon they die and she stores enough sperm in her spermathecum to lay up to 2000 eggs a day in the season for up to five years. Drones are ejected by the workers in autumn when they no longer have a useful purpose and will only deplete the winter honey stores.

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