Okay, I happened upon a short video clip of the Canberra Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee hearing all about how bee semen is harvested and the guy 'testifying' is doing so with a straight face but he's cracking everybody else up.
After doing a little research, I found that Australia suffered a loss of viable breeding stock due to a overuse of pesticide and they were studying how to get safe bee semen into the country to 'bring in new blood' so to speak.


https://www.facebook.com/jeff.gear.9/videos/10154834638053868/?ref=embed_video&t=1

I worked for my uncle who was a beekeeper every year when the heavy honey collection season came around. I've spent a lot of time around bees and the hives and I never 'heard' a drone bee bust a nut but we aren't in the bee yards during that time of year. Also the queens usually travel quite a way from their home hives to breed to keep the hive healthy by not breeding with drones they are closely genetically linked to.

Female worker bees suffer death when they sting something because it basically rips their stinger and the organs that support it from the females body when they sting. If you've ever been stung, maybe you looked closely at the stinger in your skin and you can actually see the involuntary muscular contractions of the organ as it pumps the venom into your skin. The queen will only sting other queens and queens have no barbs on their stinger and they can sting over and over and still survive.
So I did some more research:
Do Male Honey Bees Die From Climaxing During Sex?
And do their testicles explode?
Honeybee mating begins with a virgin queen bee gathering genetic material she will use to inseminate eggs, in what is referred to as a "nuptial flight." National Geographic described the process:
Each queen will mate with about twelve of her suitors.
When a drone (male bee) reaches one of the queens, he mounts her and flexes his abs to extend his endophallus, the bee equivalent of a penis, into the queen's sting chamber. He releases his semen with such speed and force that there's said to be an audible pop.
This is the climax of a male's life—and it's rapidly downhill from there. The drone's endophallus stays behind with the queen, and he falls to the ground paralyzed to await his end.
The endophallus is stored inside of the drone's body. During storage, the endophallus is inverted, or turned inside out. The endophallus is forced out of the abdomen when the drone copulates with the queen. At this point, what was the inside of the endophallus while in the body becomes the outside of the endophallus when pushed from the body. It takes much of the drone's hemolymph to force the endophallus out of the body. Thus, the everted drone becomes paralyzed and ultimately dies as a result of forcing out his endophallus and copulating with the queen.
Sperm transference in bees is an uncharacteristically violent process, and like many other mating rituals among insects and arachnids, it’s the males that come off worse. Clasping onto the back of the queen, the drone’s endophallus explosively enters her stinging chamber creating a pop sound that – incredibly – is audible to the human ear.

From Wikipedia:

The drone endophallus is designed to disperse a large quantity of seminal fluid and spermatozoa with great speed and force. The endophallus is held internally in the drone. During mating, the organ is everted (turned inside out), into the queen. The eversion of the endophallus is achieved by contracting abdominal muscles, which increases hemolymph pressure, effectively "inflating" the endophallus. Cornua claspers at the base of the endophallus help to grip the queen.
Mating between a single drone and the queen lasts less than 5 seconds, and it is often completed within 1–2 seconds. Mating occurs mid-flight, and 10–40 m (33–131 ft) above ground. Since the queen mates with 5–⁠19 drones, and drones die after mating, each drone must make the most of his single shot. The drone makes first contact from above the queen, his thorax above her abdomen, straddling her. He then grasps her with all six legs, and everts the endophallus into her opened sting chamber. If the queen's sting chamber is not fully opened, mating is unsuccessful, so some males that mount the queen do not transfer semen. Once the endophallus has been everted, the drone is paralyzed, flipping backwards as he ejaculates. The process of ejaculation is explosive—semen is blasted through the queen's sting chamber and into the oviduct. The process is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound. The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen. The bulb of the endophallus is broken off inside of the queen during mating—so drones mate only once, and die shortly after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)