HI all

I have been looking at Thelytoky, worker policing, anarchic behavior and
related topics.

I am not a biologist, nor a chemist but I understand bioligical and chemical
processes if they are explained in engineering terms.

Can someone describe for me (in those simple terms)... the sequence whereby
an egg  that is laid haploid, becomes diploid by a developmental process
that may, or may not, be aided by a virus, or a virus-like mechanism?

Or perhaps the haploid egg becomes diploid before oviposition but again by a
developmental mechanism?

I vaguely gather that this is supposed to occur at, or instead of, the first
division of the cell.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree completely?

Regards From:- Dave Cushman, G8MZY
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