Drone bee

You add a dollop of honey to your tea, spread it on toast, and drizzle it on ice cream. What if you could have an unlimited supply of this golden elixir? Instead of buying honey at the store, consider starting a beehive and keeping a honey-producing colony in your backyard. Beekeeping is becoming more popular. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that honey production increased to 19 percent between 2013 and 2014, with the average hive producing upwards of 65 pounds…

True or False... The male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work. All they do is mate. #bees #nature #drone #life

To a new beekeeper differentiating a drone from the queen can be a little confusing. I remember the first time we did a hive inspection with our first

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I knew that there were different types of bees, such as bumble bees, honeybees, carpenter bees, and parasitic bees, but apparently they als...

The male Drone Bees are more or less the least important when it comes to Hive social structures. Although without them there would be no fertilisation. Your more likely to see a male Drone bee in the summer around the Hive. Unlike the female workers they do not collect pollen & nectar.

Honey bee drone, Ennis, July 2017.

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There is only one queen in each hive and each day she lays 1000 or so eggs. The job of the drones is to mate with a queen. The worker bees keep the colony going. From the day they are born they slave away cleaning and guarding the hive, feeding the bee brood and collecting nectar to process into honey.

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A male honey bee is called a drone. Drones have one role in the colony, and when they are no longer needed, worker bees will kick them out of the hive. Often called lazy because they don’t do as much as their female counterparts, drones are vital for the expansion of the bee colony. Read on for more interesting drone bee facts.

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Apis mellifera Castes of the western honey bee | worker, queen, and drone by Alex Wild

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From pesticides to land development to electromagnetic pollution, humans often harm the ability of honeybees to reproduce.