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The Queen is usually the only fertile female in a colony and is basically an egg laying machine. A drone is a male bee whose only purpose is to mate with a virgin queen, after which it dies. A worker bee is an infertile female bee and as its name implies, does all the work in the colony or hive from house-keeping, baby rearing, nectar gathering and honey production.
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What does the drone bee do?
Drone bees are male bees whose primary role is to mate with the queen bee. They do not gather food or perform other tasks like female worker bees. Once they have mated with a queen, drone bees usually die soon after.
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.
Is a drone a male ant?
yes the drone ant will look just like the queen they both have wings but unlike the queen the drones wings are permanint. the only purpose of the drone is to mate with the queen and after the drone will fly away and soon after will die.
What do drone bees eat?
Click on the link to your right for a picture of a ground bee. == *go to wikipedia.org to get a full decription (sp.)
What types of bee's live in a hive?
In the average honeybee colony there is one queen who lays the eggs; up to about 200 drones (males), who do no work; and between 20,000 and 50,000 worker bees. The worker bees are all female but do not normally lay eggs.
What does the drone bee do?
Drone bees are male bees whose primary role is to mate with the queen bee. They do not gather food or perform other tasks like female worker bees. Once they have mated with a queen, drone bees usually die soon after.
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.
Is a drone a male ant?
yes the drone ant will look just like the queen they both have wings but unlike the queen the drones wings are permanint. the only purpose of the drone is to mate with the queen and after the drone will fly away and soon after will die.
Why is the drone flies describe as cruel?
Drone bees are sometimes described as cruel because they do not work like worker bees to gather nectar and pollen for the hive, instead relying on other bees to feed and care for them. They exist solely to mate with a queen bee and often die after mating, contributing little else to the hive's survival.
What do drone bees eat?
Click on the link to your right for a picture of a ground bee. == *go to wikipedia.org to get a full decription (sp.)
What do worker ants feed other ants to turn it into a queen?
Pepples
What types of bee's live in a hive?
In the average honeybee colony there is one queen who lays the eggs; up to about 200 drones (males), who do no work; and between 20,000 and 50,000 worker bees. The worker bees are all female but do not normally lay eggs.
How do bees mate?
When one queen survives in a colony, she will fly out on a sunny, warm day to a "drone congregation area" where she will mate with 12-15 drones. If the weather holds, she may return to the drone congregation area for several days until she is fully mated. The young queen stores the sperm in her spermatheca. She will selectively release sperm from that one mating flight for the remaining 2-7 years of her life. The young queen has only a limited time to mate. If she is unable to fly for several days because of bad weather and remains unmated, she will become a "drone layer." Drone-laying queens usually mean the death of the colony, because the workers have no fertilized (female) larvae from which to raise a replacement. A special, rare case of reproduction is thelytoky: the reproduction of female workers or queens by laying worker bees. Thelytoky occurs in the Cape bee, Apis mellifera capensis, and has been found in other strains at very low frequency.
What are three facts about a bee?
A worker honey bee is able to tell the other bees in its hive the direction and distance of a source of nectar or pollen that it has found (The Waggle Dance). A drone (male) bee dies immediately after mating. A queen honey bee can lay 1000 to 2000 eggs per day.
What type of bee mates with the queen?
the queen leaves the hive ONCE to mate. she can fly up to a mile to find a drone (male honey bee). when they meet she does a dance and the drone injects her with sperm. once the process is complete she flies away leaving the dead drone carcass.
What is the difference between a drone bee and a worker bee?
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.
Why do drones die after mating with the queen bee?
i think it dies It does die. The male bee (drone) actually deposits its genitalia inside the queen bee in a semi-explosive transfer that can be heard as an audible popping. Such a vivsections commits the Drone to a rather painful suffering and eventual death.
