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What happens to the drones after mating fight ?

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1. The sole duly of the drone is to fertilize the virgin queen hence called “King of the colony".
2. During swarming (the process of leaving the colony by the queen with a large group of worker bees to form a new colony) the drones follows the queen, copulates and dies after copulation.
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