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AI overview
A drone is a male bee, wasp, or hornet whose primary role is to reproduce with a queen. Drones matter because they are essential for the continuation of these insect colonies and species.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Vespinae
- Gender
- male organism
- Image
- Drone bee (32-image macro stack).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Drone bee A drone is a male honey bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. It does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. Its only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight, and often dies after doing so.
Genetics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “drone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.