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The male bee does no work, gathers no honey, and only exists for the purpose of impregnating the queen. It’s not hard to see why ‘drone’ is the perfect word to describe a quadcopter — a ...

Its first meaning was entomological: a drone is a male bee, whose only purpose in the hive is to mate with the queen and thereby help to secure the future of the colony. Unlike the smaller and ...

Also there is only one queen per bee population. One of the most extraordinary scenes in the film is this of a drone mating in mid-flight with a queen. NOVA: How did you get the shot from the side ...