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Bees are colonial insects, the heart of the colony is the fertile female queen and for most of the time she lays fertilised eggs that mature into female worker bees. As these workers mature they do a variety of jobs in the hive until in their final stages of life they go out and find food. If a queen bee dies the workers will select a recently laid egg and feed the grub produced with a special food called "royal jelly" this causes the grub to grow into a new queen be that will take over the hive.
During the summer the queen will also lay some unfertilised eggs which will when they hatch turn into male bees called drones. The purpose of the drones is to fly with and mate new queen bees that is what the beehive has made them for. They can not work or forage for food and die off quickly. They are also special in that they can enter any hive without the hive killing them (any other bee would be attacked if it went to another hive) as their purpose is to spread a hives genes between hives. When the mating season is over the hives will kill off all the drones.
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Drones are biologically different from other bees in a colony and only the worker bees have the ability to collect pollen and nectar.
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∙ 9y agoThe drones are the male honey bees. They only have one function within the bee population, and that is to mate with the queen. Drones develop from unfertilized eggs and do not have a stinger.
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Why can't drones bees gather their own food?
Drones are males hatched from unfertilized eggs. They don't collect nectar, nor do they have a sting. A drones' primary role is to mate with a fertile queen. They die after mating. If food is scarce, the drones are driven from the hive, rather than use up resources.
Why can't drones gather food?
Reaper Drones can't gather food because they are heavily armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and cannot kill the food for capture without also blowing the crap out of everything within five miles, and vaporising the food. Generally, they hunt in swarms, providing support to the working infantry, which help to kill and collect food for the Drones, and themselves, to eat. Over the past decade, the diet of the Workers and the Drones has varied; at first it was the Russian equivalent of the Workers, but more recently, after a sudden territory invasion by these same Russian Workers that used to be their food, and at threat of habitat loss, they began to feast on members of their own colony, most notably their own "Emperor" Worker, named by scientists as "General Shepard", before, enraged, attacking members of the Russian Workers and eventually killing and eating their leader, named as "Vladimir Makarov".
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