These sites primarily house a queen and the female workers. The female workers and male bees, called drones, generally live a few weeks to a few months, while queens average 1-2 years. Honeybee ...

Unlike the smaller and more numerous worker bees, drones are not involved in making honey nor in the defense or maintenance ...

queen bees are slightly larger than worker bees. Being the Queen During the mating flight several drones will deposit upwards of 90 million sperm in the queen's oviducts. The queen, however ...

One queen bee commands a hive of male drone bees and sterile female worker bees who go on missions to gather nectar and water ...

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The Pentagon has drones. Lots of them. And as of Monday, hundreds of miniature versions of them can work together and attack an enemy like a swarm of killer bees. The DoD made the news public on ...