
15/06/2025
Happy Father's Day to all the Drones and Fathers.
Drones are male bees and their sole purpose is to mate with the Queen Bee.Drones mate with the queen during a nuptial flight and only upto 15 drones get the chance. After mating with the queen bee, their abdomen rips open, and they die shortly after.Sad indeed.This sacrifice ensures the drone's genes are passed on to the next generation, but at the cost of its life.
Drones usually live for about eight weeks and, in that time, have all their needs met by worker bees. In the fall, the worker bees kick the drones out of the hive because keeping them through the winter demands too much work and food.
You can recognize drones because they are stouter and a little bit longer than worker bees. Their eyes are twice the size of worker bees' eyes because a drone needs good eyesight when he follows the queen high up in the air to mate.
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