In honey bee, the drones are

Question

In honey bee, the drones are (A) sterile male (B) fertile male (C) fertile female (D) sterile female

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Drone is a fertile male in a colony of social bees, eg, honeybee (Apis sp). The function of drones is to fertilize the queen and they die after mating with the queen bee as the male reproductive organs explode within the female.

Q. In honey bee, the drones are

sterile male

fertile male

fertile female

sterile female

Drone is a fertile male in a colony of social bees, eg, honeybee (Apis sp). The function of drones is to fertilize the queen and they die after mating with the queen bee as the male reproductive organs explode within the female.