[DOC] [TLE] Drone (bee) - Wikipedia [PAR] A drone is a male bee that is the product of an unfertilized egg. Unlike the female 
worker bee, drones do not have stingers and do not gather nectar and pollen. A 
drone's primary role is to mate with a fertile queen. ... How these areas are 
selected is poorly understood, but they do exist. When a .... Western honey bee 
life cycle... [DOC] [TLE] Understanding the Role of the Drone Bee in a Hive - dummies [PAR] The drone is the only male bee in the colony. Drones make up a relatively small 
percentage of the hive's total population. ... Procreation is the drone's primary 
purpose in life. ... their high maintenance (they must be fed and cared for by the 
worker bees), ... The queen will mate with several drones during her nuptial flight. [DOC] [TLE] The Drone Bee: an overview of the life of a male honey bee [PAR] How do I best explain the brief life of the honey bee male? ... They are only 
reared when it suits the queen honey bee (- is that exploitation?) ... During the 
course of around 3 nuptial flights the queen honey bee may mate with around 20 
drones. [DOC] [TLE] Drones & Queens - acbees apiaries [PAR] Their only purpose in life is to breed. Their only activity in ... There they wait for 
virgin queens to fly by. The queen will breed in flight with possibly 12-15 drones. 
... A fertilized egg can become a worker or a queen if the bees so choose. In 
times... [DOC] [TLE] Honey Bee Facts that You Probably Never Knew [PAR] The male bees or drones have no stingers and do not produce honey. ... They 
have only one purpose in life - to mate with the Queen. ... The queen mates with 
about a dozen of drones in just one nuptial flight and normally will have enough... [DOC] [TLE] Bee Facts - Bee Magic Chronicles [PAR] Only the Queen in the hive lays eggs. ... The queen will lay around 1,500 eggs 
per day. The worker bees are all female and they do all the work for the hive. ... 
The wings have tiny teeth so they can lock together when the bee is flying. ... The 
average life of a honey bee during the working season is about three to six 
weeks. [DOC] [TLE] Mechanics of Honey Bee Mating - Orkin [PAR] A male drone will mount the queen and insert his endophallus, ejaculating 
semen. ... flight are ejected from their nests, as they have served their sole 
purpose by mating. Virgin queens mate early in their lives and only attend one 
mating flight. ... mate, but they can lay infertile eggs, which in turn become male 
honey bees. [DOC] [TLE] The Peace Bee Farmer: The Queen Bee Makes a Mating Flight [PAR] May 10, 2009 ... During these flights, the queen bee will mate in the air with between twelve ... 
Where do the drones come from with which the queen mates? ... The drone 
honey bee has one purpose in life, and that is to mate in flight with a queen bee. 
.... The only way to tell if the queen is mated is to observe the hive and... [DOC] [TLE] The Colony and Its Organization | MAAREC  Mid Atlantic Apiculture ... [PAR] Honey bees are social insects, which means that they live together in large, ... 
Each colony has only one queen, except during and a varying period following 
swarming ... The queen can live for several yearssometimes for as long as 5, 
but ... from a queen cell, the queen leaves the hive to mate with several drones in 
flight. [DOC] [TLE] life inside a beehive - Friends of the Honey Bee [PAR] Learn about the role of the queen, worker and drone bees and how they ... 
Looking at life inside a beehive, it can be difficult to make sense of what is ... The 
function of the drone bee is to compete for mating with the queen and only about 
20 or so ... The queen is central to the survival of every colony and her main 
purpose

Question: A drone bee's only purpose in life is to do this with the queen & they do it in flight
Answer: Mate