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> I never said that the drones get kicked out.
I wouldn't be so quick to say that either. I have never seen more than an occasional drone being escorted to the door. According to Morse:
Maeterlinck (1901) devoted a chapter in his popular bee book to the late-summer or fall massacre of the drone or male honey bees.
While drones have been seen being dragged and driven from colonies, there have been no figures concerning their fate in late summer and fall. Because there has been this lack of data, many persons have accepted Maeterlinck's writings, or similar summarily made observations, as fact, and have believed that there comes a time each fall when most of the drones are cast from a hive.
We saw no mass slaughter of the drones in any of the colonies under observation in Ithaca.
Morse, R. A., Strang, G. E., & Nowakowski, J. (1967). Fall death rates of drone honey bees. Journal of Economic Entomology, 60(5), 1198-1202.
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