> 
> > None of the queens became drone layers--you can ask the author
> > yourself Jim (I did).  You made that claim up out of thin air.
> 
> 
> If a queen does not "produce workers", what do we call it?
> I would call it a "drone layer", as it is not "producing workers".
> Is there some other term you'd like?

Non laying queen.  Because it is not producing workers does not mean it is
producing drones.  A drone layer, or part drone layer produces drones
because it was not mated properly or has run out of sperm.
  
> If so, wouldn't the difference be, at most, purely semantics?

Not in this case, where the point is that they produced no offspring
(apparently)

Geoff Manning

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