Drone

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A drone is a male honey bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. It does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. Its only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight, and often dies after doing so.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Drone (bee)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Guillaume Pelletier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.