- The Feminine Gender of the drone is bee.
The masculine gender of bee is drone and the Feminine gender for drone is bee. The male honey bee is referred as drone. Drones do not work and don’t make honey , their primary role is only to mate with queen bee. Shape of honey bees is usually oval shape having color golden-yellow and some what brownish. Queen will be more yellowish than workers bees and drone will be brownish black. And the other difference between drone and the queen is that the queen bee will be longer and narrower than any of the other bees including drone. These are known as flying insects and usually honey bees live in a group, this group consist of drone, queen and worker bees.The worker bee is having responsibility of collecting nectar, cleaning hive, guarding the hive, caring for queen and larvae. Within 24 days, the male honey bee is proper growth from eggs to adult and worker bee takes 21 days while the queen is properly grown from egg to adult within 16 days. Honey bee workers collect nectar from the flowers which is stored in the Honeycomb. The flower nectar collect by honey bee workers is converted into the sugar that is honey inside the bee-hive. Bee-hive is called the honey bee shelter where the bee lives. The honey comb is one where honey is stored. Bees stores food for their colony to survive the winter season. The shape Honeycomb is hexagon because honey bee uses all the space and don’t waste any space around. Hexagon is perfect shape to utilize all the space. Honey bee build their bee-hive in tree hollows, holes in dead wood. As drone that is male bee does not collectfood or help the bee workers in collecting food so the drone is totally dependable on worker bee for food and the survival. The life span of worker is 15 to 40days in summer while 140 to 150 days in winter. The drone bee life span is about 50 to 90 days. The life span of Queen bee is more than the bee workers and the drone , that is more than 2 years. Queen is not only large is size as compared to workers bee but so the drone bee. The fertile queen can lay eggs constantly as it takes only few seconds to lay one egg. So the queen can latch around or more than 2000 eggs at single day. The baby bees are known as larvae or pupae. Baby bees are small white grubs like c shape.