re: "All drone eggs laid in the hive will be genetic clones of the queen"

To be a clone, wouldn't the eggs have to be diploid?  Since drone eggs are
haploid, they only reflect half of the queen's alleles for each gene.  A
dark-eyed queen can give rise to a white-eyed drone--hardly a clone!
Randy Oliver
California

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