Male bee dies after mating - GIF

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.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...751#post178792
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...179#post168941
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...376#post107211
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...001#post153131
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...416#post166183

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

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.

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

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.