[Canned Gabbiar]

Splat, you wanted to know how bees reproduce? There are male drone bees whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen. I think that after mating, they die. The male gamete is enough to last the queen it's entire life. The queen then continues to lay eggs(that are all female workers) and eventually lays another queen, not necessarily when it is about to die(Usually, after a certain period, the queen will stop laying eggs). This new queen goes off to form a new hive. If there is more than 1 queen, they will usually kill each other. However there are different kinds of bees and not all of them have hives that function in the same way.