It was originally used for laying eggs. That's probably why the guys, the drones, don't have stingers. I have a nice, long, tongue for sucking up nectar. If I were a queen or a drone, I'd look a little different. Queens have a longer abdomen and shorter tongue, since her job is to lay eggs, rather than forage.
Drone tongues are shorter too.
Drones don't have long or pointy abdomens theirs are rounded. Drones have huge eyes, which enable them to spot the queen on her virgin flight. Their tongues are short, like the queen's. I see that in my last entry, I told you about the drone's big eyes. It's about time I tell you about the reproductive castes, or the queens and the drones.