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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for the others bees. The males' cells are a third bigger. Their width is 8.75mm and their depth 16-17mm as opposed to 6mm and 12mm for the worker bees' cells.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers and drones leaving the hive, Mont Ventoux, France
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
© Michel Rauch / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers and drones leaving the hive, Mont Ventoux, France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A swarm lands on a branch while waiting to find a habitat. The swarm is made up of the old queen,
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A swarm lands on a branch while waiting to find a habitat. The swarm is made up of the old queen, drones and half the worker bees from the original colony. A few dozen explorer bees set off on reconnaissance flights to search for their new habitat.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A beekeeper face to face with a swarm of bees.
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A beekeeper face to face with a swarm of bees.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A swarm of bees on a branch of a
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A swarm of bees on a branch of a cherry tree.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the middle of a hot summer's day, half of a hive's colony has flown off following its queen and the
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the middle of a hot summer's day, half of a hive's colony has flown off following its queen and the swarm moves slowly before landing on a branch of a chestnut tree.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Mating occurs in flight over ten meters above ground. The young queen, born five to six days earlier, has only ventured
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Mating occurs in flight over ten meters above ground. The young queen, born five to six days earlier, has only ventured out of the hive for her reconnaissance flight. When sexually mature, she leaves the hive on a fair windless day and mates with about a dozen males to fill her spermatheca. Mating results in death for the drones.
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Italian bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) - The varroa parasite often develops in the drones' cells. During the fertilization flights,
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Italian bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) - The varroa parasite often develops in the drones' cells. During the fertilization flights, which last twenty or so minutes, a drone might land on a leaf to warm itself up. The males' peak flying time is between 2pm and 5pm. They fly at a height of 10 to 40 metres above the ground. The males' average flight distance is 900 metres./
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Italian bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) - The varroa parasite often develops in the drones' cells. During the fertilization flights,
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Italian bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) - The varroa parasite often develops in the drones' cells. During the fertilization flights, which last twenty or so minutes, a drone might land on a leaf to warm itself up. The males' peak flying time is between 2pm and 5pm. They fly at a height of 10 to 40 metres above the ground. The males' average flight distance is 900 metres.
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Italian bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) - The varroa parasite often develops in the drones' cells. During the fertilization flights,
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Italian bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) - The varroa parasite often develops in the drones' cells. During the fertilization flights, which last twenty or so minutes, a drone might land on a leaf to warm itself up. The males' peak flying time is between 2pm and 5pm. They fly at a height of 10 to 40 metres above the ground. The males' average flight distance is 900 metres./
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - On a hive's flight board we can see the great size of the drone compared to other bees. Veritable
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - On a hive's flight board we can see the great size of the drone compared to other bees. Veritable athletes built for flying, fertilization flights have been observed at more than 7 kilometres from the hive even if the average distance for fertilizations is 3 kilometres from the hive.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - On a hive's flight board we can see the great size of the drone compared to other bees. The male bees
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - On a hive's flight board we can see the great size of the drone compared to other bees. The male bees have more developed wing muscles than the females. These muscles allow them to carry out mating flights over long distances and for a longer time. They also facilitate copulation by allowing for faster flight to catch the queen. The males' eyes are also bigger than those of the females, allowing them to better spot the queens in the congregations that number up to 10,000 males. In addition, the males' antennas cover a surface area twice as big and have 7 times more olfactory sensilla than those of the worker bees.
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Veritable athletes built for flight, the male bees do not have a stinger and their tongue is very short. Their eyes have 8,000
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Veritable athletes built for flight, the male bees do not have a stinger and their tongue is very short. Their eyes have 8,000 facets while those of the worker bees have only 5,000. Its olfactory system with antennas longer by one segment is more efficient than that of the females. It has a longer range for the fertilization flight and a reproductive apparatus. Its abdomen is fatter and more rounded than that of the worker bee. It measures approximately 220mg as opposed to 100mg for a foraging bee. The males carry out several fertilization flights, most often 2 or 3, but they are capable of performing up to 5 in one afternoon. Before taking flight, the males clean their antennas and their eyes, most of the time at the entrance to the, but they also make those flights during the swarming, before a new hive has been found. The drones carry out two distinct fights: one for orientation and one for the fertilization. The orientation flights are short, lasting 1 to 6 minutes (Howell and Usinger, 1933). They help to locate the hive in its environment and also serve as a cleansing flight because the males defecate during it (Howell and Usinger, 1933). The fertilization flights are carried out by the mature males and last longer: 32.56 ± 22.49 minutes (Witherell, 1971).
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Veritable athletes built for flight, the male bees do not have a stinger and their tongue is very short. Their eyes have 8,000
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Veritable athletes built for flight, the male bees do not have a stinger and their tongue is very short. Their eyes have 8,000 facets while those of the worker bees have only 5,000. Its olfactory system with antennas longer by one segment is more efficient than that of the females. It has a longer range for the fertilization flight and a reproductive apparatus. Its abdomen is fatter and more rounded than that of the worker bee. It measures approximately 220mg as opposed to 100mg for a foraging bee. The males carry out several fertilization flights, most often 2 or 3, but they are capable of performing up to 5 in one afternoon. Before taking flight, the males clean their antennas and their eyes, most of the time at the entrance to the, but they also make those flights during the swarming, before a new hive has been found. The drones carry out two distinct fights: one for orientation and one for the fertilization. The orientation flights are short, lasting 1 to 6 minutes (Howell and Usinger, 1933). They help to locate the hive in its environment and also serve as a cleansing flight because the males defecate during it (Howell and Usinger, 1933). The fertilization flights are carried out by the mature males and last longer: 32.56 ± 22.49 minutes (Witherell, 1971).
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The birth of drones in a brood surrounded by nurse bees. The drone is born 24 days after the egg is
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The birth of drones in a brood surrounded by nurse bees. The drone is born 24 days after the egg is laid and it lives approximately 50 days. The drone is the only fertile depositary of the queen's genes. It is responsible for the transmission of the genes from the queen (its mother). Like all the bees, three days after the eggs have hatched the drone larvae are first fed royal jelly. Then, the nurse bees change the food to a mix of honey and pollen. Unlike the diet of the worker bee larvae, that of the drones includes more honey.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The birth of drones in a brood surrounded by nurse bees. The drone is born 24 days after the egg is
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The birth of drones in a brood surrounded by nurse bees. The drone is born 24 days after the egg is laid and it lives approximately 50 days. The drone is the only fertile depositary of the queen's genes. It is responsible for the transmission of the genes from the queen (its mother). Like all the bees, three days after the eggs have hatched the drone larvae are first fed royal jelly. Then, the nurse bees change the food to a mix of honey and pollen. Unlike the diet of the worker bee larvae, that of the drones includes more honey.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The birth of drones in the brood surrounded by nurse bees. A parasite, the varroa destructor, is on
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The birth of drones in the brood surrounded by nurse bees. A parasite, the varroa destructor, is on one of the nurses. The varroa often use the drones' cells to raise their offspring.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A drone ready for take-off the flight board.
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A drone ready for take-off the flight board.
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Aerial view of iceberg grounded in shallow rapids during tidal rip in Wager Bay on summer morning, Ukkusiksalik National Park,
© Paul Souders / Biosphoto
© Paul Souders / Biosphoto
Aerial view of iceberg grounded in shallow rapids during tidal rip in Wager Bay on summer morning, Ukkusiksalik National Park, Nunavut Territory, Canada
© Jean-Claude N'Diaye / Biosphoto
Drone flying over an artichoke flower in a garden
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Drome and queen bee mating on a flower in an organic garden
© Pascal Pittorino / Biosphoto
© Pascal Pittorino / Biosphoto
Drome and queen bee mating on a flower in an organic garden
© Claudius Thiriet / Biosphoto
Male bee leaving its cell France
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Taking sperm sample on a Honey bee drone Ouessant island ;
© Jean-Louis Le Moigne / Biosphoto
© Jean-Louis Le Moigne / Biosphoto
Taking sperm sample on a Honey bee drone Ouessant island ; Report Honey bee of Bretagne.
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Drone in the middle of workers in the hive Bretagne ; Report Honey bee of Bretagne.
© Jean-Louis Le Moigne / Biosphoto
© Jean-Louis Le Moigne / Biosphoto
Drone in the middle of workers in the hive Bretagne ; Report Honey bee of Bretagne.
© Claude Jardel / Biosphoto
Male honey bee top view France
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An unmanned scramjet flys toward outer space near the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The twin engines use the thin air for oxygen.
© Marc Ward / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Marc Ward / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An unmanned scramjet flys toward outer space near the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The twin engines use the thin air for oxygen.
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An unmanned scramjet flys toward outer space near the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The twin engines use the thin air for oxygen.
© Marc Ward / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Marc Ward / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An unmanned scramjet flys toward outer space near the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The twin engines use the thin air for oxygen.
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Insectoid drones busy collecting DNA samples from a Diplodocus sauropod dinosaur during Earth's Jurassic Era.
© Mark Stevenson / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Mark Stevenson / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Insectoid drones busy collecting DNA samples from a Diplodocus sauropod dinosaur during Earth's Jurassic Era.
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Insectoid drones trying to collect DNA samples from an unhappy Tyrannosaurus Rex.
© Mark Stevenson / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Mark Stevenson / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Insectoid drones trying to collect DNA samples from an unhappy Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Kasane, Botswana - Chobe National Park drone
© Edwin Remsberg / Visual and Written - Photo Collection / Biosphoto
© Edwin Remsberg / Visual and Written - Photo Collection / Biosphoto
Kasane, Botswana - Chobe National Park drone
© Anton Luhr / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Bees on a honeycomb
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Busy Bees, apis melifera ssp carnica on the closed cells of drone puppae with singulare drones crawling from the cells
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Busy Bees, apis melifera ssp carnica on the closed cells of drone puppae with singulare drones crawling from the cells
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Bees, apis melifera ssp carnica on the closed cells of drone
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Bees, apis melifera ssp carnica on the closed cells of drone puppae
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drone larvae in brood cells shortly before the transition into the pupae stage
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drone larvae in brood cells shortly before the transition into the pupae stage
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Concentrated nectar in sealed honey cells, some of them are partially collapsed due to volume shrinkage
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Concentrated nectar in sealed honey cells, some of them are partially collapsed due to volume shrinkage
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drone larvae in brood cells shortly before the transition into the pupae stage, with some cells already sealed
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
© Horst Sollinger / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) drone larvae in brood cells shortly before the transition into the pupae stage, with some cells already sealed