> If the allele in the sperm is the same as one of the queens alleles and if she only mated with one drone then 50% of her eggs would be diploid drones and 50% ordinary workers.
Right, I should have consulted Woyke. He says: Queens bred for two or three generations by brother-sister matings laid fertilized eggs in worker cells, from which larvae hatched, but only 50% of them survived in the hive.
> This does not appear to be what the original poster is seeing. He sees no larva at all.
Woyke (1962) showed that eggs homozygous at locus X are viable and hatch, and that the very young larvae disappear from the cells.
PLB
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