![The Queen Honey Bee copulates once in her lifetime (life span 2–5 years) that too with its own sibling drone to lay eggs throughout her lifetime! | by Shaina Arora | Medium The Queen Honey Bee copulates once in her lifetime (life span 2–5 years) that too with its own sibling drone to lay eggs throughout her lifetime! | by Shaina Arora | Medium](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1164/0*Sg_a9itWAwQMVwna.png)
The Queen Honey Bee copulates once in her lifetime (life span 2–5 years) that too with its own sibling drone to lay eggs throughout her lifetime! | by Shaina Arora | Medium
How do bees keep from in breeding recessive genes when drones mate with the queen bee (assuming the queen bee is their own mother)? - Quora
![Insects | Free Full-Text | Putative Drone Copulation Factors Regulating Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queen Reproduction and Health: A Review Insects | Free Full-Text | Putative Drone Copulation Factors Regulating Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queen Reproduction and Health: A Review](https://pub.mdpi-res.com/insects/insects-10-00008/article_deploy/html/images/insects-10-00008-ag.png?1570918509)