If the drones are not carrying away, intraspecific workers parasitize the bee colony even more. Raise drone colonies from worker eggs. Is it established in practice when breeding queens, e.g. for insemination?
Gloag, R.S.; Christie, J.R.; Ding, G.; Stephens, R.E.; Buchmann, G.; Oldroyd, B.P. Workers’ sons rescue genetic diversity at the sex locus in an invasive honey bee population. Mol. Ecol. 2019, 28, 1585–1592.
The queen is dead—long live the workers: intraspecific parasitism by workers in the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris
D. A. ALVES, V. L. IMPERATRIZ-FONSECA, T. M. FRANCOY, P. S. SANTOS-FILHO, P. NOGUEIRA-NETO, J. BILLEN, T. WENSELEERS
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