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...
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operated underwater vessel) Drone, or The Drones may also refer to: Drone (bee), a male bee Drone, fertile male ant Drone (wrestler) (born 1991; Hombre...
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drone congregation area and mate with multiple drones before returning. The drones die in the act of mating. Queen honey bees do not mate with drones...
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queen emerges from a queen cell. A virgin queen is a queen bee that has not mated with a drone. Virgins are intermediate in size between workers and mated...
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British DH.82 Queen Bee, a variant of the Tiger Moth trainer aircraft operational from 1935. Its name led to the present term "drone".[citation needed]...
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and a small proportion of fertile males or "drones". Individual colonies can house tens of thousands of bees. Colony activities are organized by complex...
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of bee that perform most of the fundamental tasks of the hive, and they are by far the most numerous type of bee. They are much smaller than drones or...
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Varroa destructor (redirect from Bee mite)
monitoring and mite removal, and drone comb that mites prefer can be used as a trap to remove mites from the hive. Honey bee lines in breeding programs also...
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worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs, usually in the absence of a queen bee. Only drones develop from the eggs of laying worker bees (with...
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un-warlike drone bee. In the cartoon series, the briskly marching, but ridiculously incompetent ant armies provide a parody of militarism. Maya – Bee: The series...
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another animal smells like a banana. Drone bees, the males, are larger and do not have stingers. The female bees (worker bees and queens) are the only ones that...
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honey bee colony is perennial. The three types of honey bees in a hive are: queens (egg-producers), workers (non-reproducing females), and drones (males...
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10 Lives (category Films about bees)
a bee, and subsequently as himself, Beckett manages to make Craven's evil intentions clear and save the bees. He saves Rose, attacked by drone-bees, from...
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circumstances. It is not known exactly why drone congregation areas have the locations they do, or how bees locate them. However, there is considerable...
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Unmanned aerial vehicle (redirect from Drone aircraft)
the term "drone" refers to the male bee that serves only to fertilize the queen bee, hence the use of the name in reference to the DH Queen Bee aerial target...
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Colony collapse disorder (redirect from North American bee disappearance of 2007)
worker bees in a honey bee colony disappear, leaving behind a queen, plenty of food, and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees. While...
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Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera)...
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called a stagworm. The genus name comes from the Greek kēphēn, meaning 'drone bee', and myia, meaning 'fly'. The larval stages of Cephenemyia are obligate...
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Beekeeping (redirect from Bee-keeping)
of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such...
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be sexually mature. Drone brood develops from unfertilized eggs. Drone brood cells are larger than the cells of female worker bees. Young larvae eat their...
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carpenter bees, sweat bees, mason bees, plasterer bees, squash bees, dwarf carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, alkali bees and digger bees. Most solitary bees are...
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Bee Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Columbus 81 Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
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pedigrees of bees (which are haplodiploids), according to the following rules: If an egg is laid but not fertilized, it produces a male (or drone bee in honeybees)...
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secreted by a queen, drone, worker bee or laying worker bee to elicit a response in other bees. The chemical messages are received by the bee's antenna and other...
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Bumblebee (redirect from Bumble Bee)
The word "bumblebee" is a compound of "bumble" and "bee"—'bumble' meaning to hum, buzz, drone, or move ineptly or flounderingly. The generic name Bombus...
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Waxworm (category Western honey bee pests)
In the wild, they live as nest parasites in bee colonies and eat cocoons, pollen, and shed skins of bees, and chew through beeswax, thus the name. Beekeepers...
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Eristalis tenax (redirect from Common drone fly)
somewhat like a drone honey bee, and likely gains some degree of protection from this resemblance to a stinging insect. The adults are called drone flies because...
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Glossary of beekeeping (redirect from List of honey bee articles)
mature bee starting from the egg Italian bee – the most well known honey bee subspecies Laying worker bee – this worker will produce only drone bees Langstroth...
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Apis cerana (redirect from Chinese honey bee)
Apis cerana, the eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee or Asian honey bee, is a species of honey bee native to South, Southeast and East Asia. This species...
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Netherlands in 2014 by Stichting Arista Bee Research, with the goal of producing a Varroa-resistant bee, by using Single Drone Insemination to enhance the Varroa...
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