Drones can be recognized by their blocky shape and large eyes. - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

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A worker (left) offers liquid food to a hungry young drone before he emerges from his cell.

Drones can be recognized by their blocky shape and large eyes.

Portrait of a drone bee.

Bees in a Langstroth moveable-frame hive.

Beekeepers will often mark queens to render them more visible. The color is standardized to correspond to a particular year; blue paint indicates this queen was marked in 2010.

A foraging bee visits a New England aster.

Cells used to raise new queens are elongate and hang down from the comb.

Four capped queen cells.

Hive bees ripening nectar.

Drones can be recognized by their blocky shape and large eyes.

Drones can be recognized by their blocky shape and large eyes.

Drones can be recognized by their blocky shape and large eyes.

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Keywords: hymenoptera apis mellifera drone male bee

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