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...
The drone is a male bee. The queen and worker bees are all female. A drone's only purpose is to mate with a new queen and it does no work in the hive, nor does it forage for nectar or pollen.
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.
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...
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...