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Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:43:43 +0200
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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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