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Why drones are called 'king of the colony' ?

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The drone is the functional male member of the colony which develop from an unfertilized egg. It lives in a chamber called drone cell. Drones totally depend on workders for honey. The sole duty of the drone is to fertilize the virgin queen hence called ..King of the colony... 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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