Did you know that drones have no father but they do have a grandfather? There are 3 different types of bees in a colony and although all larvae hatch from an egg after 3 days, this is where the similarity ends. The male bees, called drones, hatch from unfertilized eggs – the queen is their mother, but they don’t technically have a father. The queen and all-female worker bees hatch from a fertilized egg, which requires both a queen-mother and a drone-father. The shape of their cell and how they a