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"A drone bee, a haploid can never be a hybrid."
I agree with Tim, a haploid bee (drone) simply means that it possesses genes
only from the queen, and there is no contribution from any male. In
essence, the drone is a clone (sometimes called a pseudoclone) of the queen.
So, yes, if the queen is hybrid, the drone will also be a hybrid.
What the book most likely meant was that if Queen X mates with Drone Y, the
drone offspring would not be a hybrid of X and Y as the worker offspring
would be, but rather would be X.
Hope that makes enough sense.
Keep well
Paul Collett
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