CHAPTER III. 
The Drone. — Its Life and Habits. — Its Reputation for Idle- 
ness. — The Charge refuted. — Incentives to Useful Liv- 
ing. 
The male bee y or drone , so called, as some 
think, from the peculiar noise he makes when 
The Drone. 
on the wing, is much larger than the worker, and 
thicker in proportion. The whole design of his 
existence seems to be the propagation of the spe- 
cies, and consequently he has no organs for labor 
of any kind, and performs no work. 
From this fact, the drone has been called an 
