Honeybees produce their young ones only by sexual reproduction. Inspite of this, in a colony of bees we find both haploid and diploid individuals. Name the haploid and diploid individuals in the colony and analyse the reasons behind their formation.

Explanation

The colony of honet bees has three tyoes of members : (i) Diploid queen are fertile females, (ii) Worker bees are sterile females and (iii) Drones are haploid males.
An offspring formed from fertilisation of sperm and an egg develops as a female (queen or worker), and an unfertilized egg develops as a male (drone) by means of parthenogensis. This means that the males have half the number of chromosomes than that of a female.