Honey bee life cycle
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The honey bee life cycle, here referring exclusively to the domesticated Western honey bee, depends greatly on their social structure.
Stages of development of the drone pupae
Worker bee emerging from cell
Drone (bee)
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A drone is a male bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. He does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. His only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight.
Drone bee
In flight
The everted endophallus, with the cornua in focus, resembling hooks.
Varroa mite on a honey bee drone larva