1 Queen (female), 500 - 1000 Drones (male) and 10,000 - 60,000 Workers (female). The drones do not have a stinger and have a single task of mating with a new queen once one hatches. The drones are larger than the workers and have bigger eyes. The photo is of Aleena playing with a drone bee. Note that she has also done the same with the worker bees as well. We were able to get a good photo of the drone.
At the end of summer all the dornes will be ejected from the hive so they do not consume food the Queen and Worker bees need for the winter. In the spring the worker will create some new hive cells slightly larger and feed the baby bee a bit more royle jelly to create a new batch of dornes.
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