Why do worker bees kill the drone bees?

Answer 1

Drones are male bees and their only purpose in life is to mate with a virgin queen. At the end of the 'season' when they are no longer required for breeding purposes, they are ejected from the hive by the worker bees. As they are unable to forage for food, they soon die.

Answer 2

Drone bees are completely useless for everything except reproduction. They're essentially sex machines, whose only mission in life is to mate with a queen and spread their colonies' genes. Since the queen can just make new drones in the spring, and even a virgin queen can lay drone eggs, there is no need to keep them around in the winter when times are tough; they do nothing to help the hive, and the honey saved by having less mouths to feed helps the rest of the workers to survive.

Answer 3

A drone bee is the male of the honeybee (Apis). Honeybees belong to a group of insects called the Hymenoptera. All males Hymenopterans cannot sting nor do they have any poison glands.

The life of the honeybee is unusual in that there are not only males (drones) and females (queens), but also "workers", which are sexless daughters of the queen. Most worker honeybees, indeed, inject a a dose of poision when they sting. The venom can produce an allergic reaction in some people. If stung, first try to remove the stinger, which remains in your skin, using your fingernails or by shaking it off. Then stay calm. Bee stings can be very painful at first. Some people develop a tolerance and will be stung several times a day, such as farmers, bee-keepers, florists, and those who sell sweet-bakeries on the street.

Answer 4

Drones and only good for one thing. so before winter the workers evict them from the hive so they aren't a drain on the resources required to survive the winter.

Answer 5

No, completely harmless. You can even have them as house pets.

Answer 6

because they dont have a stinger.