Drones

People speaking of drones these days often refer to remotely controlled aerial vehicles, as in "the number of drone attacks has increased". But a drone, in an older usage of the word, can also be a male type of honey bee. And as it turns out, honey bee drones may be lazy and pompous but not necessarily aggressive. They don't even have stings! From the 17th-century beekeeping classic The Feminine Monarchie by Charles Butler, chapter 4:

"The Drone, which is a grosse Hive-Bee without sting, hath beene alwaies reputed a greedy lozell: [...] for howsoever he brave it with his round velvet cap, his side gowne, his full panch, and his lowd voice; yet is he but an idle companion, living by the sweat of others brows. For hee worketh not at all, either at home or abroad, and yet spendeth as much as two labourers: you shall never finde his maw without a good drop of the purest nectar. In the heat of the day he flieth abroad, aloft, and about, and that with no small noise, as though he would doe some great act: but it is onely for his pleasure, and to get him a stomach, and then returnes he presently to his cheere."

(This quote appears in a slightly different version in Stewart Guthrie's book Faces in the Clouds.)