worker bees vs drone bees facts other types of bees division of labour process.
This article highlights the differences between worker bee and drone bees.
Drones are the male bees produced from unfertilized eggs. They neither sting nor work. Their main duty in the hive is mating with an emerging queen and that duty is performed only once in a lifetime. As soon as they finish mating with the queen, the drones fall down and die as they have completed their destined duty. The queen also mates only once in a lifetime but she does not die as a result. Drone bees are very few in any hive since the unfertilized eggs that produce them are scantily laid by the Queen. They constitute less than one per cent of the bees in a hive. The other drones which do not participate in mating only loiter around the hive and feed freely from the labour of the worker bees.
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