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Lacking a stinger, what is the name for a male bee whose primary role in the colony is to mate with a queen?
Drones, the male honeybees, lack stingers because they do not possess the ovipositor modified for stinging in females, focusing instead on mating with queens.
What figure-eight dance do bees perform to share food locations, conveying information with its angle and duration?
In the waggle dance, the angle of the straight waggling run relative to the hive's vertical indicates the food source's direction from the sun, while its duration signals the distance.
Fed exclusively to queen larvae, what protein-rich secretion allows a bee to develop into a fertile queen instead of a worker?
Royal jelly contains royalactin, a protein that activates a signaling pathway in bee larvae, promoting rapid growth, larger ovaries, and queen morphology.
Bees and flowering plants share what type of symbiotic relationship, in which both species benefit from their interaction?
In mutualism, bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers for food, while transferring pollen between plants to enable fertilization and seed production.
Known as bee glue, what resinous mixture is used by bees to seal cracks and defend the hive from microbes?
Propolis is collected by bees from tree buds and sap, mixed with beeswax and saliva to form a sticky sealant that also has potent antimicrobial properties.