Comment on Which is which?

jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No they aren’t, the males just live in the hive and their only purpose is to fuck

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re thinking of honey bees. And no, honey bees do not “live in the hive and fuck.” They fuck once mid air then die.

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    • CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fucking living the dream

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This sent me down a rabbit hole. It’s estimated that less than one in one thousand actually mate though. So… Maybe.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Death by snu snu.

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  • hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Drones also maintain the temperature of the nest/hive.

    Additionally, carpenter bee drones defend the hive (although they don’t actually have any defences, and therefore do this by repeatedly bumping into the adversary); and Asian honey bee drones help to kill murder hornets, by enveloping them (alongside other bees) and essentially cooking them to death.

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  • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AFAIK bees are females, the drones are the males.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol no they aren’t. Honey bees have male drones. Carpenter bees have male bees that guard their nest from other bees.

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No they’re not, that wouldn’t even make sense. If all individuals of a species are of a single sex, there wouldn’t be male and female, they are hermaphrodites. Bees reproduce sexually.

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I got the stinger :p

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• jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)

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