Talk:Drone (bee)

message: Please substantiate this claim. This claim is encountered in other online content, buthdjkd not substantiated, either by citation or by personal attestation. I am not an expert, but nonetheless skeptical.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Subcientifico (talk • contribs) 00:53, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''The process is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound.''  

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[a drone will] sometimes try to frighten the disturber by swinging its tail towards the fingers
//  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monowiki (talk • contribs) 21:25, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bees have fingers? huh? 

message: I think this are typical workers. First argument: The eyes are to small. Second: Drones are not collecting food (and water). They will be always feeded from their sisters. --MikePhobos 18:02, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is that true, are the drinking bees on the picture drones? 

message: According to this article:
"It is not clearly understood what prompts a honey bee queen to lay an unfertilized egg versus a fertilized egg."
According to Pongthep Akratanakul:
"The fertilized eggs are deposited in small worker cells, while the unfertilized eggs are laid in the larger drone cells: the queen can determine cell size and cleanliness by passing her head into the cell and using her front legs to measure its internal width."
http://www.fao.org/docrep/X0083E/X0083E03.htm
According to Brian P. Dennis:
"The mated queen can lay an egg, which becomes a drone, or add sperm to the egg to produce a worker - if the fertilised egg is reared in a queen cell and fed copiously, a queen is produced. The queen determines the type of cell by measuring with her front legs - worker cells are smaller than drone cells."
http://www.bbka.org.uk/articles/life_cycle_apis_mellifera.php
Michael Bush (talk) 19:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chosing to fertilize an egg 

message: "Drones carry 100,987,543 type of allele because they are ha ..."   Huh?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.183.87 (talk) 14:15, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The opening just may need some rewording 

message: In the section Roles it is written that several drones mate with non-virgin queen whereas on other sources it appear that drones mate with virgin queen on her mating flight.
If someone is able to add some explanation it might be helpful.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Umair amin (talk • contribs) 06:49, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drones mate with virgin queen or non-virgin queen? 

message: The "general" citation  could possibly have been relevant but without an inline reference it's not clear why it was in the article. Here it is, just in case. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:51, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Not clear what this may have been for

message: Soprano 196.249.98.57 (talk) 18:34, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drone bee develop from 

message: The reference to the Fibonacci serie was done first by Basin . Here the reference: https://www.fq.math.ca/Books/Primer/primer.pdf on p6 that refers to the article in FQ 1:1 Feb 1963.
Someone with more experience than me to add correctly that reference? Txs 2A02:A03F:6AF4:4200:108E:EEE5:44EC:46F (talk) 18:27, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fibonacci 

message: Many Bombus colonies produce drones that operate in a similar manner (however they often leave the colony earlier (probably) because they are proportionally much harder for the smaller Bombus colony to support).
The intro sentence seems unintentionally exclusive and may give the impression that *only* honey bees have drones.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RJ Bertramus (talk • contribs) 15:08, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drones are not only male honey bees