A drone's work is never done. Everyone knows about worker bees. They do all the work, build the hive, fetch the pollen and nectar, take care of the babies and a lot more. The queen has the very big and never ending task of birthing all the little bees. Often we give the drones a hard time because other than mating with the queen, they just hang around and eat food stores. However, they really are incredibly important, they are the carriers of the next generation. They fly out to find queens from other colonies and pass along their genes.....thus insuring he continuity of the honey bee race, and of their particular colony.
This is what Spanish setlers first called the California Poppy. Translated, that means "cup of gold", a term first coined in local legend and one inspired by this plant's orange petals. It was said that as each of the petals eventually grew tired and fell, they would turn into gold as they tumbled down, changing the ground beneath into a rich, treasure-filled bounty.
