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food for the hive. They earn foraging assignments after harsh apprenticeship as cell cleaners, nurses, builders, and guards.
In contrast, the less numerous fertile male drones live a life of carefree luxury. Fed and pampered by their smaller sisters, they blunder out of the hive only on sunny days to join the young workers on practice flights or to take a sun bath.
SEARCH WHETS APPETITE As a drone acquires strength and flying skill, he may cruise far above the trees, hoping to find a queen on her mating flight. His appetite whetted by the fresh air, lie soon returns to the hive to eat and rest until the next fine day.
But a terrible justice descends on the luckless wastrels after a queen bee has mated with one. Njpped, abused, and starved by their former nursemaids, the terrified drones flee the colony or cower in comers where they are killed.
Worker bees normally make about a fifth of the cells in a hive large enough for drones. Used as storage bins in the winter, they are emptied and cleaned in the spring. The queen gradually fills them with unfertilized drone eggs, and the life-death cycle starts again.
The difference between a queen bee and an ordinary bee is largely a matter of diet. For the first two or three days, all newly hatched larvae are fed royal jelly-- a sour-sweet nutriment administered by nurse ants.
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