# Do queen bees give drone bees blowjobs?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 5, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879 "2015-04-05T15:08:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/1 "2015-04-05T15:08:02Z")
Basically do they engage in other types of sexual behavior as well, besides standard intercourse, like humans?
Are there any other animals that do?
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### Author:  [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/2 "2015-04-05T15:09:05Z")
I saw a duck gang bang once. Does that count?
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/3 "2015-04-05T15:11:44Z")
bonobos have sex in as many ways as humans and more often. it’s part of their culture.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/4 "2015-04-05T15:15:21Z")
The problem is they can’t get it out of their mouths afterwards.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/5 "2015-04-05T15:21:46Z")
> [@R3d\_Anonymous](#):
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> Do queen bees give drone bees blowjobs?
If they did, it would be death for the drone, and the Queen might have a hard time eating afterwards. The drone’s penis (endophallus) has barbs that prevent it from withdrawing. One thrust, they are stuck. As they try to pull out, the penis separates from their body and they die. The penis remains attached and the sperm inside the queen for the rest of her life. She can control the release of sperm at will until it runs out, months or years later.
One strike and you’re out. “Hey, Baby, love those gossamer wings…Wanna kill me?”
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/6 "2015-04-05T15:22:46Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> If they did, it would be death for the drone, and the Queen might have a hard time eating afterwards. The drone’s penis (endophallus) has barbs that prevent it from withdrawing. One thrust, they are stuck. As they try to pull out, the penis separates from their body and they die. The penis remains attached and the sperm inside the queen for the rest of her life. She can control the release of sperm at will until it runs out, months or years later.
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> One strike and you’re out. “Hey, Baby, love those gossamer wings…Wanna kill me?”
Damn, I thought I was joking.
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/7 "2015-04-05T15:37:22Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Damn, I thought I was joking.
Funny, I thought you were serious, because you were right.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/8 "2015-04-05T15:54:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Damn, I thought I was joking.
Not quite – joking would be “wax on, wax off”. 😃
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/9 "2015-04-05T16:01:23Z")
This is why I avoid eating honey.
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### Author:  [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/10 "2015-04-05T16:17:24Z")
[Everything the OP wants to know.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reproductive_sexual_behavior_in_animals)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/11 "2015-04-05T16:19:08Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> This is why I avoid eating honey.
I’ll bet Honey is pissed.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/12 "2015-04-05T16:41:42Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> I saw a duck gang bang once. Does that count?
But did it echo?
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/13 "2015-04-05T16:54:32Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> But did it echo?
Duck vaginas aren’t _that_ big.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/14 "2015-04-05T17:24:11Z")
No, but bees do give a flying fuck.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/15 "2015-04-05T18:49:03Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> This is why I avoid eating honey.
It is really bee vomit, and on top of that they eat fuck dust.\*
- That is what pollen is after all. 🙂
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### Author:  [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/16 "2015-04-05T19:40:54Z")
No, drone bees give drone bees blowjobs. All the time.
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### Author:  [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/17 "2015-04-05T20:35:12Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> I saw a duck gang bang once. Does that count?
Just the once? Because, to be honest, the sick little fucks are doing it all. the. time. Some females have even evolved false vaginas so at least the rapists don’t get to pass on their genes. And yes, this is really true, if slightly edited for brevity.
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/18 "2015-04-05T23:04:42Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#):
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> Just the once? Because, to be honest, the sick little fucks are doing it all. the. time. Some females have even evolved false vaginas so at least the rapists don’t get to pass on their genes. And yes, this is really true, if slightly edited for brevity.
Heck, being male is no protection from a good rogering. Nor is death, for that matter. They can spend literally all day raping a corpse. They don’t care.
Seriously, ducks are assholes.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/19 "2015-04-05T23:37:11Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> Duck vaginas aren’t _that_ big.
Picture of a duck penis, the largest among vertebrates. Possibly NSFW if that wasn’t obvious:
[http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/lake-duck.jpg](http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/lake-duck.jpg)
> [@Barking\_Dog](#):
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> Heck, being male is no protection from a good rogering. Nor is death, for that matter. They can spend literally all day raping a corpse. They don’t care.
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> Seriously, ducks are assholes.
There is a famous paper (and IgNobel prize winnner): “The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)” ([pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20110724162534/http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574&style=home)).
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-queen-bees-give-drone-bees-blowjobs/716879/20 "2015-04-06T00:04:10Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Picture of a duck…
Someone sent me an email titled, “Picture of a Duck”.
When you opened it, it was a girl in the park, in front of a pond/lake with enormous juggs & waaaay over on the other side of the pond/lake was a duck. It’s a good thing there was an arrow to point out the duck, too. 😉
Sorry, but I can’t find the picture now; _thought_ I saved it.
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