Queen bumblebees are roughly the size of a quarter, while male drones are small in comparison. Drones also lack a stinger, which means they’re practically defenseless in a situation such as this.

The term "mating flight of the queen" was coined in 1934 in a poetic article published in The Bee World, in which the author writes that the drone bee "makes amends on behalf of his kind for a ...

The solution was the de Havilland Queen Bee drone. "It's this requirement for anti-aircraft training that really drives the drone industry and establishes it as a viable aerospace niche during the ...

They told me a honey bee colony includes one female queen, many female workers and, depending on the time of year, some male drones. Workers have lots of jobs. They gather nectar and pollen.

Queen bumblebees are roughly the size of a quarter, while male drones are small in comparison. Drones also lack a stinger, which means they’re practically defenseless in a situation such as this.