. Beekeeping in Illinois. Bees; Bee culture. Bees : The Individual and the Colony. The drone. Note the blunt ab- domen and the eyes that meet on the top of the head. (Fig. 6) heat in the colony and may be of value by affecting the "morale" of the colony or in other ways that are still not known. However, since they consume food and take up space, their numbers should be kept at a minimum by using full sheets of comb foundation and maintaining combs with few drone cells. The drones are produced from unfertilized eggs usually laid by a queen but occasionally by workers whose ovaries ha
. Beekeeping in Illinois. Bees; Bee culture. Bees : The Individual and the Colony. The drone. Note the blunt ab- domen and the eyes that meet on the top of the head. (Fig. 6) heat in the colony and may be of value by affecting the "morale" of the colony or in other ways that are still not known. However, since they consume food and take up space, their numbers should be kept at a minimum by using full sheets of comb foundation and maintaining combs with few drone cells. The drones are produced from unfertilized eggs usually laid by a queen but occasionally by workers whose ovaries have developed (lay- ing workers). A normal queen lays drone eggs in cells that are larger than worker cells. When sealed, the cells have distinct, rounded cap- pings (Fig. 7). Both laying workers and queens unable to lay fertilized eggs produce drones in worker-sized cells. Those that survive are normal, small drones, but many of them do not grow to maturity in the smaller cells. Drones require 24 days to develop from egg to adult. Another type of drone is produced in some honey bee colonies. However, they are never seen as adults because the worker bees remove hem from the comb a day or two after the larvae hatch. These drone arvae hatch from fertilized eggs that have a matching pair of hereditary iactors called sex alleles. The eggs are laid in worker-sized cells by a jueen that mated with one or more drones having a sex allele the same IS one of hers. Eggs with a single allele are unfertilized and usually aid by the queen in large cells of the comb where they produce normal irones. Fertilized eggs with two different sex alleles produce normal vorker Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jaycox, Elbert R. Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois
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