Male bee dies after mating - GIF

[Altair]

Male bee or drone dies after mating.

The drone endophallus is designed to disperse a large quantity of seminal fluid and spermatozoa with great speed and force. The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen.




Previously:

Large honeycomb harvesting machine - GIF
Bee Lady rescuing a bee hive - GIF
Bee pulls nail from brick - GIF
Bees uncapping a honey bottle - GIF
Bee vacuum - video

[bob_3000]

What a great way to go if that's your only option.

[toeless joe]

Could explain why I got 'disconnected' from so many queens back when I was young. Or maybe I was just a real a**hole back then. Probably the latter.

[mlochala]

Bless his heart, that's his nuts still hanging on to her as he falls and fades away. Heck of a way to go.

[tonyfoale]

Interesting that they had a camera focussed on the exact spot where the bee landed, considering that they were moving about quite a bit up in the air. Cameraman intuition par excellence.