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In a word: nothing. Male bees (drones) have only one purpose in life, to mate with new queens and will be out of the hive looking for queens whenever the weather is suitable. They do no work at all within the hive. For this reason, at the end of the summer all of the drones are thrown out of the hive to die so they are not a drain on precious food resources during the winter. In the spring the queen will start laying new drone eggs for that season's drones.
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What in a bee hive these bees are responsible for fertilizing the queen?
Drones (male bees).
What do female bees do in the hive?
female bees make honey and do other things in the hive Answer: With the exception of a few male (drones) in the hive all bees in a hive are female. They do all the work. The only task the males have is to mate with the new queens if the hive swarms or if the present queen dies
What are three kinds of bees in a honybee hive?
Queen, drones (male bees), workers (infertile females).
What kind of bees do not work?
The above is WRONG, worker bees are the sterile female bees that do do all the work. The bees that do no work in the hive are the male "drone" bees that the hive produces each summer. They have one function only, to mate with new queen bees.
How many bees in a swarm?
Usually about half of the bees in the hive leave in a swarm. The average hive can peak at around 60,000 bees, so it is reasonable to expect a swarm to be anything up to about 30,000 bees.
Can or cannot bees within one hive comunicate with bees from another?
Bees in one hive typically do not communicate with bees from another since they usually will not allow bees from another hive to enter their own hive.
What is the difference between male bees and female bees?
Female bees can produce baby bees the males cannot. The female bees are diploid and the male bees are haploid. The antennae of a male bee has thirteen segments, while the antennae of a female has twelve. This is one way in which male and female bees are different. The worker (unfertilized female) honey bee does all the work, both in and out of the hive, whereas the male (drone) bee does no work at all. The bad news is that at the end of the breeding season, the drone is ejected from the hive and dies because he doesn't know how to forage for food.
Is a worker bee female or male?
All bees except the drones are females. Female: queen, worker, nurse, etc. Male: drone. After performing their "male function" for the queen the drones are forcibly removed from the hive by the other bees and starve to death. From this point on there are only females in the hive. Except for the queen the other female bees are infertile.
How many male bees live in a hive?
Usually none, all the working bees are infertile females. Only when the hive is about to swarm a number of drones (male bees) are hatched. Around 1% of the bees in a colony during the season are male. Only during winter are there no males in the colony.
How many bees in 1 hive?
It varies throughout the year and also depends on the size of the hive, but with the average hive in late winter there will probably be between 10,000 and 20,000, and it summer there will be up to around 60,000 bees.
When and where do bees breed?
In the hive. the queen bee's sons breed with theri mother. The main use of male bees is breeding with the queen bee
Do bummble bees sting?
Yes - if they're trying to defend themselves or their hive.
