• @BluesF
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      164 months ago

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

      • JackbyDev
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        64 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.

          • JackbyDev
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            24 months ago

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

      • Hellfire103
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        34 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.

    • JackbyDev
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      34 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      24 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.