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Drone (bee) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (507 words) |
 | Drones are 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. |
| Drones never exhibit other typical worker bee behaviors -- such as nectar and pollen gathering, nursing, hive construction, etc. Since the bee's stinger is a modified ovipositor (an egg laying organ), the drone is defenceless and can not defend the hive. |
| All bees, when they sense the hive's temperature deviating from proper limits, either generate heat by shivering, or exhaust heat by moving air with their wings -- behaviors which drones do share with worker bees. |
| Laying worker bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (111 words) |
| A laying worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs usually in the absence of a queen bee. |
| Only drones develop from the eggs of laying worker bees and a beehive cannot survive with only a laying worker bee. |
| It is difficult to introduce a new queen bee to a hive with a laying worker as the new queen may not be accepted by the hive. |
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