Answer by Mike beekeeper. Confidence votes 10.3K. All honey bee eggs hatch into larvae three days after they have been laid by the queen. The larval and pupal times differ, so an adult worker emerges 21 days after the egg was laid; a drone (male) after 24 days; and a new queen after 16 days. queen honey bee will live for up to five years. Drones (males) can live for up to four months, but will die after mating at whatever age, and any drones in the hive at the … end of summer will be evicted by the workers and will die.