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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jpablo68@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Bees are all female, so…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months 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.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I got the stinger :p
jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
BluesF@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No they aren’t, the males just live in the hive and their only purpose is to fuck
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months 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.
CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fucking living the dream
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
This sent me down a rabbit hole. It’s estimated that less than one in one thousand actually mate though. So… Maybe.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Death by snu snu.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
jpablo68@infosec.pub 11 months ago
AFAIK bees are females, the drones are the males.