ALL drones are haploid - i.e. NOT sterile. Drones produced by laying workers are no different.
(Not quite strictly true. A small minority of drones are diploid but they are destroyed by the workers while still larvae. http://honeybee.drawwing.org/book/diploid-drones Yes, bee biology is weird.)
Mike Rossander
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