Question

Male honey bee colonies are called as
(a)Drone
(b)Worker
(c)King
(d)Soldiers

Answer 1

Hint Honey bees are flying insects that are known for their construction of perennial colonial nests from wax known as hives and domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. Some of them produce and store honey that has been kept by humans for different purposes and the wax used for making candles, lip balms, soaps, and other products.

Complete answer:
Male honey bees are known as drones that do not have fingers and do not gather nectar or pollen. They mate with an unfertilized queen and produce a large quantity of seminal fluid and spermatozoa with great speed and force. The endophallus is achieved by contracting the abdominal muscles that increase hemolymph pressure and the base of the endophallus helps to group the queen. They carry only one type of allele at the chromosomal position because they are haploid and divide to get haploid cells called gametes with 16 chromosomes. De does not mate with a virgin queen in a hive and the fertilization takes place in congregation areas which are far from the hives. When the drone mates with a queen it has a spotty brood pattern due to the removal of larvae by nurse bees.

Additional information:
Worker: It is any female bee that is capable of reproduction and is correlated to an increase in the certain non-reproductive activities related to the queen. They occur in Bombus species and gather pollen into the pollen baskets on their back legs. they carry it to their heights where it is used as the development of brood. The amount of food supply of fruits depends upon the crop pollination by honey bees. They carry pollen to another flower where a small portion is rubbed off onto the pistil which results in cross-pollination. They suck nectar through proboscis and mixed with enzymes that carry it back to the hive and stored in wax cells which evaporate into honey.
King: It is classified as a pet which can be obtained by purchasing Honey or by trading for it. Drone mate with the queen bees and die after mating.
Soldiers: They are known in ants and termites and our first evidence of soldier bees which is designed for active defence of their nest. They are stingless.

So, the correct answer is 'drone'.

Note: Honey bees are super pollinators and produce delicious honey. The worker bees create a new Queen by selecting a young larva and feeding them special food called the royal jelly which enables the Lava to develop into a fertile queen. They consist of 170 odorant receptors which help them in communication and recognizing different types of flowers for food.