At 12:59 PM 3/17/2005, you wrote:
>"A drone bee, a haploid can never be a hybrid."
>
>the drone has no father

But aren't the queens eggs formed by meiosis (cell division where the
queens diploid cell becomes the haploid cell of the egg)?
And during the process genetic reassortment (I've heard it called other
names),  mixes up the chromosomes from the queens parents.  Meaning that
each egg (and hence each drone) is not a perfect copy of either of the
queens parents.  So yes, a haploid can be a hybrid.   It will be a mix of
the queen's mother and father.
http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/cellreproduction/meiosis/section1.html

-Tim

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