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A drone is characterized by eyes that are twice the size of those of worker bees and queens, and a body size greater than that of worker bees, though usually smaller than the queen bee. His abdomen is stouter than the abdomen of workers or queen. Although heavy bodied, the drone must be able to fly fast enough to accompany the queen in flight.
Eristalis tenax is a large, stocky bee mimic.The eyes are marbled in black. Males have hovering displays. The average wing length is 9.75–13 mm and their average wingspan is 15 mm.
Unlike a bumble bee colony or a paper wasp colony, the life of a honey bee colony is perennial. The three types of honey bees in a hive are: queens (egg-producers), workers (non-reproducing females), and drones (males whose main duty is to find and mate with a queen). Unlike the worker bees, drones do not sting.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyPunch-drunk honeybees unable to walk in a straight line after they’d ingested “safe” concentrations of insecticides; bumblebee ...
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The oldest known fossil stingless bee is Cretotrigona prisca, a small worker bee approximately 5 mm in body length, discovered in New Jersey amber. This species is believed to have existed during the Late Cretaceous period, around 65–70 million years ago, marking it as the oldest confirmed fossil of an apid bee and the earliest fossil ...
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