Apis mellifera, Drone, back, MD, Talbot County_2013-09-30-180340 ZS PMax_10062884926_o The Drone or male of the honeybee. Note the eyes, they actually meet on top of the head. It lives only do mate with a virgin queen and the expanded compount eyes help.

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Apis mellifera, Drone, back, MD, Talbot County_2013-09-30-180340 ZS PMax_10062884926_o The Drone or male of the honeybee. Note the eyes, they actually meet on top of the head. It lives only do mate with a virgin queen and the expanded compount eyes help. Note the weak reflection of the female's heavily modified hind tibia, still expanded, but not really functionally, probably a molecularly cheap byproduct of being haploid. Collected from a colony in Talbot County, Maryland by Tim McMahon Apis mellifera, Drone, back, MD, Talbot ZS PMax

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