From what I remember the workers feed some of the babies royal jelly to make Queens in queen cells.
What we call a couch potato these days was once called a drone.
They are worthless do nothing but hang around and eat.
In the fall the workers kick them out to die.
I have watched them do it, sort of sad in a way.
They keep trying to come back into the hive only to be push back out in the cold.
Worth