Question

The development of a male bee (drone) takes how long ?
A. 16 days
B. 19 days
C. 22 days
D. 24 days

Answer 1

Hint:
Before answering the question, we must know about male bees.
Drones, or male bees, are inactive. They make up around ten percent of the colony's population and live their entire lives waiting to mate while consuming honey. Drones are male bees whose only function is to mate with the queen; they are incapable of working, producing honey, or stinging. Most drones won't even have the opportunity to perform their function because a queen only needs to mate once. The stinger, often known as the sting, is an altered egg-laying tool. As a result, only women possess these. In spite of having a stinger, many bee species' females are actually unable to sting.

Complete answer:
In only 21, 24, and 16 days, males (drones), female workers, and queens develop from the same genome, yet their prospective adult lifespans are very different (Winston, 1987). Male progeny typically develops from unfertilized eggs in haplodiploid systems, which are haploid and have only one set of chromosomes. Queens and worker bees develop from the fertilized honey bee eggs, which are diploid and have two sets of chromosomes.
So, the development of a male bee takes about 24 days.

Option ‘D’ is correct

Note:
Every honey bee hive has three different species: workers, drones, and a queen. Both the queen and the workers are women. Queens are larger than workers and have reproductive capabilities. The drones lack stingers, are male, and have significantly larger compound eyes. The dazzling hexagonal pattern is not just made by honey bees.