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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JEFF THIELE on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:14:00
    I still say you are wrong about the drones. Only one of them contributes
    anything to the hive. The others all just free load off of the workers until they kill them.

    Oh, and which one is that? Are you assuming that only one of the drones mates with the queen bee?

    That is what we were taught (and shown on film) in school.

    Also, research has shown that when when bees -- both workers and drones -- detect that the hive is getting too cold or too warm, they work together to regulate the temperature of the hive by shivering or moving air with their wings, respectively.

    We were taught that the drones do very little, so that is new.

    The workers don't kill the drones, nor does the queen. They die as a result of mating, or of natural causes.

    That is not what we were taught (and shown on film) in school. It is also
    not what we were shown during a nature class where bees were kept in a bee
    box that was see through on one end. We got to watch the workers drag the still live and kicking drones to one corner of the box where they were
    being killed.

    Some of them could die of natural causes, I am sure, but the ones we
    watched that day died of the "natural cause" of injuries inflicted by the
    other bees, which apparently is something that naturally happens.

    I remember it well because I was not a fan of bees at that age.


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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Mike Powell on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:59:15
    On 03 Nov 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
    Oh, and which one is that? Are you assuming that only one of the drones with the queen bee?
    That is what we were taught (and shown on film) in school.

    I don't know what you were taught in school, but that is factually wrong.

    We were taught that the drones do very little, so that is new.

    Attempting to compare bee sociology to human forms of government is not a
    vwry good metaphor.

    Jeff.

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