Drone

Drones or kings did not work. Characteristic of interest is the large eyes. The eye consists of a facet which is more than eye facets on pakerja bees and queen bees.Small-sized drone bees from the queen bee, but larger than worker bees. Blackish color. Voice loud hum. He does not have to store the pollen baskets of flowers, her lips do not have the suction hose pipe honey. The tail end of the abdomen are not stingless. Calm nature.Generally, drones eggs hatch after 3 days placed in the cell. For 5 days the larvae feed continuously until it turns into a cocoon. After 16 days berkepompong, comes form drones.Age drones only about 3 months. His job is to marry the young queen bee. Birahinya period appeared at the age of 38 days from egg cells inhabit the nest.
1. Occupants of the nest Malas
Nester drones are lazy. Very fond of eating. Eating worker bees fed.Drones hardly ever out of the nest, except during the marriage. In the nest, he served keeping the nest, nest cleaning of dirt, and a few other lightweight tasks.
2. Bees function Males
The main function of the male bees are the queen bee marries candidate. In order to meet these demands, the chest drones equipped with strong muscles and big eyes.Genitals special-shaped drones. His penis is very large trunk. After marriage lasted a few seconds, drones often experience death. He died of a broken stem twisted his penis when squeezed vagina while revoked, or abdomen burst when trying to separate themselves from the queen bee.Only one male bees that could marry the queen bee, and it is sufficient to fertilize about 20 million eggs. After mating, the male bees die of exhaustion.
3. The amount is limited
After mating occurs, the male bees are not chosen to marry the queen bee nest ignored by fellow residents. They are considered no longer useful. When feed scarce because of famine, worker bees nest to throw him out. Drones who can not find the feed will soon be abandoned and starve to death. Trying to get back to the nest to be attacked to death.The life span of male bees can not be measured with the right time, because there are die naturally and there are dead prey predator. Average lifetime ranges from 4-6 weeks from the time adults or between 8-10 weeks of weeks of the eggs hatch into larvae.In a large group of bees, on average there are 200-300 tail drones. The drones were ignored by the queen bee who is married and spawn.In a regular farm, the number of male bees in a colony are often reduced or deliberately discarded in part by the breeder.

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