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.
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.
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.
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.
No, completely harmless. You can even have them as house pets.
because they dont have a stinger.
yes
The mouths of drone bees are slightly larger than worker bees. The worker bees have more functional mouth parts used for building.
A drone bee is a male. The queen and all worker bees are female.
Actually, the 'worker-bees' are 'Lez-Bees'.
bees live in colonies or groups. each colony has a queen bee and a drone bee and many worker bees. the queen bee lays eggs with the help of drone bee and the worker bees look after them.
Drone is the masculine name of a male bee. Female bees are the worker bees or the queen bee.
The drones are the male bees. The queen and worker bees are all female. The only purpose of a drone is to mate with a new queen. Once mating has finished the drone will die. Within the hive, the drones have no function and do no work. As autumn turns to winter all of the drones in the hive will be thrown out by the worker bees and will die. New drones will be produced at the start of the next season.
The drone bees are the males in the colony. All the females, except one, are workers. The exception is, of course, the queen. Drone is often used to refer to the male of some insect societies, bees and ants being the primary ones. The opposite gender would be the queen. The drones fertilize the queen and she lays eggs for the colony. Female wasps and bees are the queen and the workers. The drones are the only males. The queen and all workers are female.
The above is WRONG, worker bees are the sterile female bees that do do all the work. The bees that do no work in the hive are the male "drone" bees that the hive produces each summer. They have one function only, to mate with new queen bees.
No, bees do not drone, however the male honey bee is called a 'Drone'.
Females are the Queen and the worker bees.Males are the drones.
The common bumblebee is usually larger than the honey bee worker, and of comparable size to the honey bee drone.