Because the Male Bee Technically Has Only a Mother, and No Father, Its Genealogical Tree Is Unusual. the First Generation Has One Member (The Male). Why Are...
Because the male bee technically has only a mother, and no father, its genealogical tree is unusual. The first generation has one member (the male).
Why are male bees fatherless?
What it boils down to is that males are the result of unfertilized eggs whereas females are born from fertilized eggs. But in bees there is an added complication since there is a gene that determines whether a bee will be male or female.
Drones, a small percentage of a normal hive, are the males that result from the Queen laying an egg without a sperm. He has a maternal grandfather, a mother, but no father. Daughters (workers and maybe a Queen) is dependent on whether he “gets lucky” with a young Queen. He has no sons.