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Description
Drones never exhibit typical worker bee behaviors such as nectar and pollen gathering, nursing, or hive construction.

Since the worker bee's stinger is a modified ovipositor (an egg laying organ), the drones are defenseless and cannot defend the hive- although if picked up will sometimes try to frighten the disturber by swinging its tail towards the fingers.

This has led the drone to be considered as a canonical example of a worthless member of a society.

Although the drone is highly specialized to one function, mating and continuing the propagation of the hive, it is not completely without side benefit to the hive.

All bees, when they sense the hive's temperature deviating from proper limits, either generate heat by shivering, or exhaust heat by moving air with their wings — behaviors which drones do share with worker bees. They will also, in some species, if the nest is disturbed, buzz around the intruder in an attempt to tail

Description
Drones never exhibit typical worker bee behaviors such as nectar and pollen gathering, nursing, or hive construction.

Since the worker bee's stinger is a modified ovipositor (an egg laying organ), the drones are defenseless and cannot defend the hive- although if picked up will sometimes try to frighten the disturber by swinging its tail towards the fingers.

This has led the drone to be considered as a canonical example of a worthless member of a society.

Although the drone is highly specialized to one function, mating and continuing the propagation of the hive, it is not completely without side benefit to the hive.

All bees, when they sense the hive's temperature deviating from proper limits, either generate heat by shivering, or exhaust heat by moving air with their wings — behaviors which drones do share with worker bees. They will also, in some species, if the nest is disturbed, buzz around the intruder in an attempt to tail