To give bees a break, farmers pollinated an apple orchard using drones

Wild Blossom Apiaries LLC on Instagram: "Once I took a closer look at the pile of dead bees I noticed they were all drones! A drone is a haploid, meaning they carry one set of chromosomes and are the result of an unfertilized egg. These male bees, unlike the female worker bees, contribute virtually nothing to the tasks in the hive. They take a lot of resources to raise and a lot of resources to maintain. In other words, they eat a lot of honey and burn through stores. So what is their purpose th