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- bees mate twenty feet off the ground doing thirty miles per hr. Fact
- (Not sure where that person got that answer.) but another answer is the Queen and the Drones mate and no one else, the queen needs to mate with 18 different drones and the sperm will last the rest of he life (2 years) and they mate in the hive, not 20 feet of the ground at 30 mph.
Honey bees most certainly DO NOT mate in the hive. A virgin Queen leaves the hive on a mating flight when she is about five days old and will mate (while flying) with approximately thirty drones, all of whom will die after mating. That one mating will last for the rest of her life which can be up to five years. However, beekeepers tend to cull and replace their queens after two years to maximise efficiency. If the bees are living in the wild, they will supersede the queen themselves if they are unhappy with her egg-laying performance.
In fact, the latest research shows that up to fifty drones may be involved in the mating of each virgin queen..
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