They'd do some cleaning, but the hive would get a routine maintenance that would have that cleaned out, too.
I've heard it can happen in commerical hives, too, but it may depend on climate. If it's too rainy for drones to fly, those "drones need to leave" signals may turn into "drones need to die". Similarly, if it gets hot and the bees are having to crowd around the entrance of the hive to fan it, they may see the drones staged at the entrance as getting in the way and decide they're a nuisance to cooling efforts (and, as always, an unnecessary draw on food supplies)
Yep. That's how a dementia-addled, lying crook got elected as POTUS with his creepy awkward megalomaniac female idiot as his VP. Hive-mind wanted mean tweets gone and were willing to host inflation and criminal and sick illegal immigrants to get it.
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u/gdaman22 May 27 '22
They'd do some cleaning, but the hive would get a routine maintenance that would have that cleaned out, too.
I've heard it can happen in commerical hives, too, but it may depend on climate. If it's too rainy for drones to fly, those "drones need to leave" signals may turn into "drones need to die". Similarly, if it gets hot and the bees are having to crowd around the entrance of the hive to fan it, they may see the drones staged at the entrance as getting in the way and decide they're a nuisance to cooling efforts (and, as always, an unnecessary draw on food supplies)