KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Role. The drones’ main function is to be ready to fertilize a receptive queen. Drones in a hive do not usually mate with a virgin queen of the same hive because the queen flies further to a drone congregation area than the drones do. Mating generally takes place in or near drone congregation areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -A male drone will mount the queen and insert his endophallus, ejaculating semen. After ejaculation, a male honey bee pulls away from the queen, though his endophallus is ripped from his body, remaining attached to the newly fertilized queen.

Detailed explanation-3: -The drones are lazy boys. Their only work is to mate with a queen and only the fittest few will get this pleasure. Otherwise they sit around the hive being looked after by the workers or hang round on the bee equivalent of street corners waiting for a young queen to come by.

Detailed explanation-4: -Drones don’t necessarily mate with their own queen, but instead, they gather outside the hive with other drones from neighboring colonies. It’s like a mating meeting place. Drones collect in mating swarms up to a mile away from the hive.