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The drone is the only male in the hive, and its sole function is to mate with the Queen, and, says Amberson, “the consensus is that the Queen mates only once.” The drone stays in the hive for its whole life, cannot sting, and is usually big and fat from inactivity. In the fall, when the hive is closing up for the long winter months, the drones are kicked out and left to die because they no longer have any reason to exist. In an average hive of 15,000 to 100,000 bees, there will be from 15 to 100 drones - a very small percentage of ‘the overall number, f Edch hive dnly has one Queen, and, explains
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