Image from: beebehavior.com The drone is the only male bee in the colony. Drones make up a relatively small percentage of the hive’s total population. At the peak of the season, their numbers may be in the hundreds. You rarely find more than a thousand. Procreation is the drone’s primary purpose in life. Despite their high maintenance (they must be fed and cared for by the worker bees), drones are tolerated and allowed to remain in the hive because they may be needed to mate with a new virgin queen (when the old queen dies or needs to be superseded). The few drones that do get a chance to mate are in for a sobering surprise. They die after mating! That’s because their sex organ is barbed (like the worker bee’s stinger). An organ inside the queen called the “spermatheca” is the receptacle for the sperm. The queen will mate with several drones during her nuptial flight. After mating with the queen, the drone’s most personal apparatus and a significant part of its internal anatomy is torn away, and it falls to its death. Excerpts from Beekeeping For Dummies: Understanding the Role of the Drone Bee in a Hive By: Howland Blackiston A group of Filipinos living and working in Toronto, Canada gathered together for a great task without expecting anything in return. They have exerted extra resources, time, and effort to donate blood to recipients they don't even know. Because of their sacrifices for their family and their contributions for the economic-growth, overseas Filipino workers are considered "Modern Day Heroes" here in the Philippines. Heroism runs in their blood even in a foreign land. PROHERO.ORG salutes these people!
We must always remember, we have a heroes’ lineage. We will never run out of Bonifacios, we will never run out of Rizals, we will never run out of Ninoys, we will never run out of Filipinos who are ready to answer the call of flag and country.” President Benigno Aquino III said on his speech today commemorating the 149th birth anniversary of Andres Bonifacio, the supreme commander of the Kataastaasan, Kagalang-galang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Highest and Most Respectful Society Of The Sons Of The People) or Katipunan or KKK for short. The KKK was founded secretly to attain the freedom of the Philippines from the Spaniards by force. The heroes mentioned created big impact in the life of the Filipinos; unfortunately, all of them were killed and died bloody. But for us blood donors, we will not suffer the same fate; the blood withdrawn from us will be transfused to save others life. The heroes' lineage continued to us and hopefully up to the next generations.
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