What is the difference between a drone bee and a worker bee?

Answer 1

No. Worker bees are all female, and perform all the tasks in the hive except two. The Queen bee lays all the eggs that will produce the new bees. The Drone is male. His only function is to fertilise a Queen. The process of impregnation kills him. All other Drones are disposed of each autumn.
Drones account for approximately 1% of the bees in a honey bee colony.

Answer 2

The drones do no work in the hive, and for most of the season the workers will feed them. But at the end of the season the workers will stop feeding the drones and will evict them from the hive. The drones will then die of starvation or of cold.

Answer 3

The average honey bee hive in summer has one queen, around 60,000 workers and around 200 drones. In winter there is still one queen, probably something like 15,000 workers and no drones.
In colonies of other types of bees, there will always be more workers than drones.

Answer 4

A drone is a male bee and does no work in the colony. It's only purpose in life is to mate with a virgin queen - after which it dies. A worker bee is an infertile female and as its name suggests, does all the work within the colony from raising young to keeping the hive clean and collecting nectar and pollen. Some might say that it's much the same in a human household!!

Answer 5

A worker honey bee is an infertile female bee and as its name suggests, does all the work in the hive and collects nectar and pollen for the colony. A drone is a male bee and its only purpose is to mate with a virgin queen - after which it dies.

Answer 6

The drones are male bees and do no work at all. Their only purpose is to mate with a virgin queen and when they have done that they die. At the end of the breeding season, any remaining drones will be ejected from the colony by the other bees and because they are unable to look after themselves, they soon die.

Answer 7

The queen is a fertile female, and she lays all the eggs.

Workers are infertile females, and the drones are the males.

Answer 8

One queen, 1% drones and the rest will be workers.