"Parthenocarpy is an altogether different phenomenon and does not apply
here.  Bees are not bananas!"

That was my point. That the drones of queens are variable. The only way I
can see a bee producing a clone is when workers do it occasionally using
thelytoky, a form of parthenogenesis.

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