Drones
Drones
Male honey bees are called drones. The purpose of the drone is to mate with the queen.
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Role of the Drone
Drones are the largest bees in the colony, looking rounder or stouter than workers. They have much larger heads than either queens or workers, and their compound eyes take up a larger percentage of their heads, meeting at the top. Drones have no wax glands, pollen baskets, or stings, and they don't appear to do much work inside the hive.
Despite their lack of participation in the day-to-day operation of a colony, drones seem important for the normal functioning of a colony.
The sole purpose of the drone is to mate with a queen.
The sole purpose of all drones is to try to mate with a virgin queen, although few of them actually get that opportunity. Once they are fully mature, drones leave the hive and gather together in drone congregation areas, where they wait for virgin queens. They will chase after these queens and attempt to mate in flight. The few that are successful die immediately after copulation. In the process of mating, part of the drones endophallus remains lodged in the queen. This is called the mating sign and is removed by the workers when she returns to the hive.
Drones are pushed out of the colony at the end of summer.
Because of their size, drones eat more than workers do. At the end of summer as pollen and nectar sources start to dry up and the colony prepares for winter, workers push the defenseless drones out of the colony, where they will soon starve. Drones have never been observed foraging for food on flowers. They can't live a solitary life. Curiously, though, queenless colonies will allow drones to stay indefinitely.
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