@Gbudd Queens can lay eggs with or without fertilisation. Unfertilised eggs only inherit the queen's DNA, and so are automatically female (but not fertile) - that's where workers and soldiers cone from.
Fertilised eggs have a 1/2 probability of being male; the males only exist to fertilise new queens. Fertilised females become queens.
@Gbudd
Queens can lay eggs with or without fertilisation. Unfertilised eggs only inherit the queen's DNA, and so are automatically female (but not fertile) - that's where workers and soldiers cone from.
Fertilised eggs have a 1/2 probability of being male; the males only exist to fertilise new queens. Fertilised females become queens.
Non-solitary #bees and #wasps work the same way. #Termites are always diploid; workers and soldiers can be any sex.
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