Actually, a lucky drone or two gets to fertilize the queen of the hive.
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Drones serve a natural purpose, when there’s a queen to mate with.
Workers will begin laying in a hive that is not queen rite.
Eggs laid by workers cannot produce anything but a drone. A queen cannot be raised from a drone.
Thus, a hive producing nothing but drones is a dying, non-productive, hive.
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Yeah, try researching the subject before talking out of the Southern end of your lotech abdomen.
>>Actually, a lucky drone or two gets to fertilize the queen of the hive.
Lucky in that the drone gets to pass on its genetic heritage; not so lucky, however, considering that the drone’s penis is ripped out in the process and he dies immediately after mating.
The drones who don’t mate, meanwhile, get to live out their lazy lives on the work product of others.
As the honey supply dwindles in a dying colony, the last remaining workers toss the slovenly eunuchs out of the hive.
Too fat and weak to fly, they can be seen wobbling along the ground until the ants find and devour them.