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To: average joe who wrote (78600)	11/5/2003 9:13:22 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

Some females have been found killing males identified as useless to their group. (death penalty or murder?) Drones are male bees and have no father (product of an unfertilized egg). They are very specialized in that they are defenseless (no stinger), do not forage (early in life are fed by workers), come equipped with very large eyes and antennae with specialized receptors enabling them to locate a queen on her maiden flight. Their sole purpose is to impregnate a maiden queen and if successful their reward is death. In areas with a prolonged winter they are evicted from the hive as the weather gets colder and often die of predation. A drone is produced from the egg after 24 days and can live some eight weeks. liadventures.com