Cameron Duke of MinuteEarth explained why there are queen bees but no king bees due to the fact that the queen lays all the eggs in the hive and the males who mate with her promptly die.

It is common for a queen bee or ant to mate with a male once in her life. Repeated mating increases the risk for queens to become infected with sexually transmitted diseases or for being eaten by ...

We then tied the bee up with this—very carefully ... (The queen has to be flying to mate.) We "tied" the queen in front of the camera, then we had to lure the drones from their altitude of ...

In the wild, a queen bee might mate with dozens of drones, and store all that semen to use over the rest of her life. Artificially inseminated queens, Dr Chapman says, tend to receive semen from f ...