Posted by alexandra on Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 10:00am.
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What are your choices? I would assume that the drones only serve one function: to fertilize the new queen.
Does that match any of your choices?
In winter, very few, if any drones are present. Workers actually pull out of the hive drones in the fall, to suffer death alone. The colony does not need them in the winter, and keeping them is a cost to the colony.
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