A honeybee hive's division of labor is based on sex. The Queen, if she lays fertilized eggs, produces only females. Those become the workers who, depending on their age, maintain the hive, and forage for food. Most of the year the hive is composed only of females.
An unfertilized egg becomes a male.... called a drone. To call a human a drone is not a compliment. Drones do not maintain the hive nor do they forage. In fact, the workers end up feeding them. They only have a reproductive role.
You ask if the drones get a punishment? If food is scarce, the workers do not feed the drones and they die of starvation.In the bee hive, do the bees that work really hard get a reward and do the slackers get a punishment.?
That didn't work out so well - way back in the beginning of time (so the story goes) the slacker bees were all sentenced by the Queen to have their heads cut off. Alas, when the day arrived for the sentence to be carried out, the executioner bee was unable to do his grisly work - it turned out that the slacker bees (and indeed every other bee as well) were already Bee-headed. Get it? ';beheaded';? Oh, never mind..In the bee hive, do the bees that work really hard get a reward and do the slackers get a punishment.?
There are no slackers.
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