Weaponized bee males cannot fly and usually die dispersing between nests

Evidence

This same bee species also has smaller, more “typical” males that lack weapons, and these unarmed males can fly. They disperse from their burrow to seek out neighboring nests and females. After the big-headed males have mated with all of their sisters, they, too, venture out from their nest in search of females. But, unlike their flying counterparts, these males must crawl. Crawling the tens of meters between nests is an exceedingly laborious process for a rice-grain-sized bee with a bloated head, and it is almost always fatal because they’re exposed to predators all along the way. The price of winning fights for the chance to mate with your sisters is an utter inability to make it to neighboring nests. — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 763

Categorization

• QUESTION: Whether weaponization within a species produces separate fighter and disperser male castes in other taxa is worth chasing.
• FICTION: The image of rice-grain-sized fighting bees crawling to their deaths between nests is a vivid dramatic scenario.
• XREF: connects to: Extreme weapons across many insect species stunt eyes, wings, antennae, and testes — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 297

Related

• Extreme weapons across many insect species stunt eyes, wings, antennae, and testes (similarity 0.81)
• Extreme male weapons evolved independently at least eleven times in vinegar flies (similarity 0.79)
• Males evolve big weapons to defend resources that females visit (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Extreme weapons across many insect species stunt eyes, wings, antennae, and testes #exemplifies (0.75) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 297